by Warren Gaston | Jan 22, 2017
A man needs help climbing up. His neighbor offers a ladder. It’s not a perfect ladder, but sturdy and strong and the man begins to climb. Another neighbor, the one on the sunny side of the street, comes over. “Let me help,” he says to the climbing man. “The ladder...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 21, 2017
The town I grew up in (Denton, Montana, 1950’s, pop. 500) has been murdered in Chicago in 2016. Five hundred souls given sentences punc,tuated by the grammarians of dea.th Period. No question. No question mar?k gun.s chalk line.s erasure.s Killings,...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 18, 2017
I pray thee, most holy, mechanical & mercantile god, take us out of our perplexing time, toward sometime else & other. “Toward the complexity advancing at you?” a booming voice from heaven wants to know. No! Back!! Yesterday! The day before yesterday! Last...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 7, 2017
Two words you seldom have seen together, ‘thrill’ and ‘phenomenology’. Perhaps the later word you’ve never seen at all. We will begin there. Phenomenology is a philosophical word. It begins with things as they are – – – wait for it –...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 4, 2017
lodge pole pine column of water column of light soil scrambling skyward cellulose sun sifter riddled with rain
