by Warren Gaston | Sep 1, 2022
I would like to draw a distinction between fake news and news you don’t like. Fake news is a falsehood claimed as a fact. News you don’t like is very likely a fact. (This is not an inconsequential distinction.) *In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 30, 2022
It is what it is, Nothing to brag about, something to mourn. Over eras we learned that more was less, and wouldn’t last, We civilized the indigenous out of their ingenuity. Then we created artificial problems much easier to solve. Alienation was essential. Detestation...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 28, 2022
The most significant benefit of reading a poem is not what it says but what you say after it sinks in.
by Warren Gaston | Aug 23, 2022
Switching on the radio on my drive home from the store, the sound of fervent self-discipline poured into the car, Alice Sara Ott* embodying a classical tradition. I imagine yearly hours of practice, a child, a piano bench, small hands flying over ivories, mistake...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 19, 2022
Water disguises, reforms: tea, ice cubes in tea, salt oceans, the great fresh lake stretched west beyond sand, the alluring office cooler, 24 bottles plastic wrapped, the pool below the diving board, storms and lawn sprinklers, thirst, my own after hiking, the...
