by Warren Gaston | Jan 19, 2022
green trees now snow fleshed white bone ghost giants
by Warren Gaston | Jan 19, 2022
This poem is an attempt to understand the dynamics of language, spoken or written. Are words boxes of information to make and transfer meaning from one mind to another? The answer is Yes. But are words more than that? The answer is Yes. Words engage not only the mind...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 18, 2022
Can we experience texture from text? First, Helen Keller famously touched tactility, cool, viscous slippering flow, next, Anne Sullivan pressed into Helen’s palm the abstract signifier: w-a-t-e-r, cuneiform, a proxy for the real. Texture before text. Can the...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 11, 2022
If the future has a past, then does the past have a future. If you draw a straight line from where we have been and extend it through where we are now, you get a pretty good idea of where we are going. If you don ’t like...
by Warren Gaston | Jan 1, 2022
All adjectives are dependent on nouns. Without nouns, adjectives are nothing. You can’t just have tall or short. Something has to be tall. Something has to be short. Nobody says, “Look! There’s short.” Nobody says, “Tall looks shorter today.” My natural...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 27, 2021
There is damage to be fixed. Then there is damage caused by the fixes?