by Warren Gaston | May 21, 2019
looking up my eyes thicken with light the light thickens to sky the sky thickens to black wings arcing black wings thicken to a noun the noun thickens into the word b i r d the word dissolves into movement a black streak across the sky...
by Warren Gaston | May 10, 2019
I am at a party and I don’t know what to say. People are friendly. They welcome me. They extend their hands. They smile. Glad to meet you, they say. Glad you came. I don’t know what to say. You must think I’m socially awkward, or perhaps unfriendly or ungrateful. But...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 29, 2019
He wants to dive deep. He can’t. Too many flotation devices. Too much buoyancy. He wants to enter deep into the cave. He can’t. Too many danger signs. Too many warnings. He wants to go deep with his wife. He can’t. Too many deadlines. Too many t.v. commercials. He...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 13, 2019
Genesis 2:19-20 Adam squirmed in the mud- womb hearing God say ‘let’. With each ‘let’ life leaped out of nowhere into ‘is’, the first verb Adam needed to make sense of his world. Being after being appeared, materialized, happened, took its place among the rest. After...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 8, 2019
This is a philosophical poem. It has to do with our relationship to the earth. Not only is the earth our current address, it is our mother. We are humans, earth beings, raised up out of the humus, the soil of the earth. The second biblical creation story, Genesis...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 2, 2019
“Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. The...
