by Warren Gaston | Sep 4, 2022
The forest is on fire. We don’t care. Some care. Those with forest houses care. Most don’t, think they care, they must, who wouldn’t, the beauty, the deer, owls in the trees, brown bears lumbering along moss paths. Fish smile in streams. They laugh all wet and smug....
by Warren Gaston | Sep 2, 2022
There is no such thing as no such thing. If you can imagine such a thing there is such a thing, existing in your imagination.
by Warren Gaston | Sep 1, 2022
I would like to draw a distinction between fake news and news you don’t like. Fake news is a falsehood claimed as a fact. News you don’t like is very likely a fact. (This is not an inconsequential distinction.) *In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 30, 2022
It is what it is, Nothing to brag about, something to mourn. Over eras we learned that more was less, and wouldn’t last, We civilized the indigenous out of their ingenuity. Then we created artificial problems much easier to solve. Alienation was essential. Detestation...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 28, 2022
The most significant benefit of reading a poem is not what it says but what you say after it sinks in.
by Warren Gaston | Aug 23, 2022
Switching on the radio on my drive home from the store, the sound of fervent self-discipline poured into the car, Alice Sara Ott* embodying a classical tradition. I imagine yearly hours of practice, a child, a piano bench, small hands flying over ivories, mistake...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 19, 2022
Water disguises, reforms: tea, ice cubes in tea, salt oceans, the great fresh lake stretched west beyond sand, the alluring office cooler, 24 bottles plastic wrapped, the pool below the diving board, storms and lawn sprinklers, thirst, my own after hiking, the...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 17, 2022
Every circle begins, continues, & ends with an arc.
by Warren Gaston | Aug 14, 2022
8 – two spheres stacked, one of two imperial months, July, August, the first 7th and 8th months of the year. Each year towards summer’s end, month eight stirs my meditations as we approach month number nine, on our Gregorian calendar September – Sept – the...
by Warren Gaston | Aug 12, 2022
We are so tired, we historians, so tired, hired to sanitize dated data, flushed in amnesiac American light. Our popular books see shine, everywhere, everywhere glittering, the future, even the past. NOTE: Forgetting doesn’t work anymore, and moreover, worse than...
