by Warren Gaston | Jun 30, 2016
“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Emptiness is not separate from form, form is not separate from emptiness. Whatever is form is emptiness, whatever is emptiness is form.” The Heart Sutra A cargo ship arrives in port, laden with goods from the East. It is not a...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 24, 2016
electric flash sky wound scorched cloud pain a basso profundo voice thunders out of rain echoing late alarm the danger is never past...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 20, 2016
follow pencil across paper, see what thoughtful dust is left behind. loops, swirls, straight and slanty lines. ‘t’s crossed ‘i’s’ dotted an alphabet, twenty six letters we have agreed in many rearrangements should speak our unique versions of...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 19, 2016
“Poetry for Adonis is not merely a genre or an art form but a way of thinking, something almost like mystical revelation.” Charles McGrath New York Times October 18, 2010 McGrath is...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 5, 2016
“It (making a poem) is about the extending of human consciousness, making conscious the unconscious, creating a symbolic consciousness that in its finest moments overcomes the dualities in which the human world is cruelly and eternally, it seems, enmeshed.” Clayton...
by Warren Gaston | May 26, 2016
“The concept of Negative Capability is the ability to contemplate the world without the desire to try and reconcile contradictory aspects or fit it into closed and rational systems.” John Keats: in a letter to his brothers,...
