While being berated by the swells I was clutching fast to the helm. I had fastened myself to the handles and was battling the shifting angles. Yesterday I was alone on this ship and today I find myself alive in this empty realm. Between ten thousand opposing wave I am utterly and wholly entangled….

  Will lilies grow when the glaciers recede? Why bother to even ponder such a dream? For as of now how the mountains stand The ice walls march on fields of man.   Acre by acre of arable land is consumed By the hungry beasts of frozen doom. Our strength and will is sapped and dry….

An excusable nuisance has made refuge by my chamber. The creature pesters, mocks, and taunts me into anger. I do not remember ever sending for its invitation, But one day long lost to shadows it arrived in unfamiliar configuration. It was reduced in size and grandeur, but still held my gross curiosity. Something so peculiar…

  Delightful and pure is an infants’ laughter They know life is play; comedy and disaster. Their role is one of simple necessity. We are the one’s burdened by increasing complexity; Actors, like that of wood stained by lacquer. 15 January 2018

A solemn glare does suppose despair, But a disingenuous grin that one does share Is worse than a curse of fowl intent. It deceives those naive. It misrepresents. Indefinite faces one must beware. 15 January 2018

Once the amber fades to grey From the shadows does lurch dismay Through the pane it may be seen Is the tranquil fury of this scene Children play before their elders flame 15 January 2018

How must I remark From this year’s very start I could not have conceived That I would know such reprieve. Mercy has entered my heart. 15 January 2018

A candle which holds upon its flame With even the weakest of grips Still posses the power to exclaim, “Burn with me world down unto the Styx!” 7 December 2017