by Warren Gaston | Mar 25, 2020
In a room of pregnant women, I want to shout alarm, warning, useful words of preparation for those about to be born. This is what awaits you. If you are lucky you will carve choice after choice out of solid ice and wood, finite fixes, exposed to the teeth of time. If...
by Warren Gaston | Mar 23, 2020
Hi astronaut, sailor through vast star seas, tell me what you remember of life back home as you enjoy your long rocket ride from Earth, your blasted sling-shot fling through clouded sky, ignoring gravity’s plea to not leave home. Do you, like Lot’s wistful wife,...
by Warren Gaston | Mar 20, 2020
In the whole history of doors, has there ever been one that has never been opened and always been closed? If a door is fixed, is it broken? A door can serve as a provisional wall. A wall cannot serve as a provisional door. I have a photograph of a door hanging on my...
by Warren Gaston | Mar 19, 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 It’s always something. Australia is burning. Cities in China are in lockdown in the interest of global health. The president of the United States of America has been legally impeached for being morally impaired, Ten million Americans are...
by Warren Gaston | Mar 17, 2020
How do I grow old while remaining articulate? My blood wants to know. My cilia. My frontal lobe. Also my bones. Also my pen. I want to be literate and literally alive. As an infant I had no words for the festival of occurrences, all the comforts and disturbances...
