Captian's Log Religious Debate 4 Nov 2024 I dreamed recently, and in the dream, I was going, somewhat surreptitiously, to an underground fellowship of Christians. Well, metaphorically, it was underground; I was in some sort of skyscraper,…
Captian's Log Born Blind 3 Nov 20242 Nov 2024 The devil's cunning, don't you know,and takes you where you would not go.Reason falls before his lies;makes ill seem good unto the eyes.So wisemen fall and simple rise;the blindman sees…
Captian's Log In a New Land 1 Nov 202426 Oct 2024 The dead are marching on the castle, the king has fled his home;he left his vacillating vassal, whose broken legs won't roam. The crows are growing restless, the stores are…
Captian's Log Strange Magic | Happy Halloween 31 Oct 202410 Oct 2024 The strange and terrible magic of an old sheet thrown over your head, to cut out eyeholes in a threadbare cloth stolen from your bed, to visit your neighbors as…
Captian's Log Glad Gourd Glow 21 Oct 2024 The pumpkin smiles upon the doorstep, its face shining with an inner light. Orange gourd and guardian of the night, smile on, my friend, smile on. There are terrors that…
Captian's Log Echoes in the Bones 19 Oct 2024 There is a beauty to the dead, that quiet countenance,that soft, relaxed, untroubled face, which worms will feast on hence.There is a beauty to be dead, to rest within a…
Captian's Log The Wife 17 Oct 2024 When death was sharpening his scythe, I had whispered to my wife, "Go fetch some water from the well;a sweet, cool drink, and I'll feel swell."She did as bid and…
Captian's Log Final Prayer 15 Oct 2024 O happy ghosts adancing by my headand spectered merrymakers all around,almost I forget I'm deadwith smiling faces all around. The skeletons play music wellas you all drag me down to…
Captian's Log Morning Strains 14 Oct 2024 After the storm and thunder, I woke as in a dream. We had all been sleeping in the living room of the old house, our bags like still worms, cocoons…
Captian's Log Steering in the Night | Part II 13 Oct 202412 Oct 2024 The youth I cradled in my arms, held him against my breast,and took him from the sea to land, from war and unto rest.The tale he told me when he…
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