by Warren Gaston | Sep 26, 2022
Massive necks, boulder heads, hammer hooves, robed in shag. Verging, flip-flop-tee-shirted sightseers, but for minds with words, scrawny. A ranger addresses tourists careless of the wild, stand back! Yellowstone National Park, 2014 written: 2022...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 22, 2022
One haiku moment on that pedestrian day, the sun and the sunflower dissolved into density: the universe a second before the Big Bang.
by Warren Gaston | Sep 9, 2022
Roiling, the Pacific laving the stone shore, the midnight moon slap dashed on waves, human voices out of mineral dark baths, naked, birth-ready, and reckless with hope’s question: Can the numinous, wrest from the grasping hands of gasping gods, be rediscovered in...
by Warren Gaston | Sep 8, 2022
Smarmy robots do not need solace. No need to be comforted. No grief, they gleam. A third of their time – plugged-in. Batteries do need to be recharged. Wired for warmth, a socket for a friend.
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...
