by Warren Gaston | Feb 8, 2016
Surrealism is an artistic expression, usually painting or poetry, that originates from the unconscious mind. It does not start with an idea to be logically pursued. It does not begin with an agenda, imposing meaning or form on material. Surrealistic poetry simply...
by Warren Gaston | Feb 8, 2016
(see Surrealism under essays posted 2/8/16) On Tuesday while walking, I ran smack into the sky. Dazed. Bruised. Instantly my head filled, first with amazements, then amusements, then algorithms. Next, a cup of black coffee gave birth to a crow. “Pretty bird, pretty...
by Warren Gaston | Feb 4, 2016
Of the things males are given to make themselves men, shoes are important among them. Impressions – in snow, in mud, in the office floors above ground. Today at the gym I will wear blue shoes. When I was a boy men did not wear blue shoes; brown, black, tan,...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 28, 2016
Of the qualities God must own, constancy would be one, maybe number one. We want a God to be yesterday, today, tomorrow, forever the same. Reliable dependability. Patterns of predictable behavior. No tolerance for variance. No changing the rules mid-game. What if the...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 11, 2016
I have just spent a week with a young woman bulking up on language. She is 2½ years old and calls me grandpa. A year ago she made noises. Now those noises are being transmuted into distinguishable words. It is dawning on her that the surrounding big people have given...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 10, 2016
When I wake in the morning the dictionary is awake in me, ready-at-hand to put me to use. I do not squirm into language like a tight shirt. I am language, nouns verbs modifiers. Language wears me, an elemental alphabet of possible worlds. I am a gerund, a noun made...
