Captian's Log Memories of Mt. Hood 13 Sep 202512 Sep 2025 Do you ever wonderwhere the rivers flow?Desolate, white Mountain peakwhat happens to your melted snow?Between here and there, forests and planesyour living waters feed.Birds and beasts this gift refreshed, this…
Captian's Log Shadows and Light 25 Jun 2025 Have you seen me? Do you recall those days? You are so young, and I no longer young, no longer upon that stage I once owned in every step and…
Captian's Log The Nothing That Comes 21 May 2025 Battered and bruised, the fighter stood, his hands tightly clenched as his legs burned with the fire of exhaustion, of long and arduous labor, of meeting their breaking point and…
Captian's Log Grinning Reliefs 23 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 How false I find the grinning reliefs lining the molding of this stoney passage. Fat, smiling, toothless, each jocund countenance is only a mask; the truth is in the eyes,…
Captian's Log Short Story: Alone with Himself 22 Oct 2024 Please Read: Alone with Himself Excerpt: The stone stairs were all that saved me once I’d entered the fog. My heart sank when I looked up and saw those dank clouds…
Captian's Log Secret Shadows 12 Feb 2024 The thin, oily skins flipped easily from page to page. The texture was new to Tom. It was at once too smooth and too heavy. He was used to paper,…
Captian's Log The Shadows Whisper 5 Feb 2024 The continuity between yourself and my own is stretched, I'll agree. You cannot, at this moment, recognize your own shadow, but I am; or, perhaps, I am naught. I am…
Captian's Log Past and Present 25 Sep 2023 I found my eyes were locked onto the slim shadow of the noose. In the dying sun, it cast its darkness down the empty main street, a thin, faint line…
Captian's Log Bat 3 Jul 20231 Jul 2023 The bat is circling in the air, a crisscrossing path free of care, a shadow in a darkening sky; in the night, the shadows fly.
Captian's Log Spider’s Art 4 Sep 20223 Sep 2022 How pretty shines these little strands,this rainbowed silk, the spider's web.How subtle are the weaver's bandswhich hold her guests while their lives ebb.What nightly terrors trouble mewhile wrapped in dreams…