Captain, My Captain
Carpe diem
I hope my micro flash fiction, “Captain, My Captain” brings you a bit of serenity.
Published by Moonpark Review (June 21, 2019) the work was nominated for Best Microfiction 2020.
One of my personal favorites, this story links magic and history and popular culture and yes oh yes, yet another personal favorite - coffee.
Thank you, editors Mary Lynn Reed and Lesley C. Weston for the publish and the nomination.
Read the story here.
Florida has so many layers.
Cassadega, Florida offers a mystical slice. A spiritualist community, Cassadega is the place to tune in to your spirit guide or have your spirits raised simply by visiting the bookstore or breathing in the peace of the community.
Visit virtually here.
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers day trip all who will listen from the band’s hometown Gainesville, Florida to just down the road “Casa Dega” - here.
Writing the word captain twice in a title (regardless of the writer’s choice of punctuation) inevitably leads to all thoughts Walt Whitman and his poem O Captain! My Captain!
A deep dive into the public domain led me to this jewel- The Whitman Recording.
“Rediscover … the "tape-recording of what may be an 1889 or 1890 wax-cylinder recording of Walt Whitman reading four lines of his late poem 'America.'" *
Follow along and listen to those four lines here.
Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old,Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,Chair'd in the adamant of Time.This poem is in the public domain.
” Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary”.
Where I recently submitted work
HAD 100
The Disappointed Housewife
The Idaho Review
JAKE
*Folsom, E., (1992) “The Whitman Recording”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9(4), 214-216. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1340
Rights: Copyright © 1992 Ed Folsom
Loved the micro, Sheree! So fun & clever 😃