by Warren Gaston | Jul 14, 2020
And still, she couldn’t see the craft carrying her through life. If she wasn’t doing it, what was? An undetectable boat? Someone rowing. Not her. Or perhaps an invisible sail. That would make sense since the wind itself is invisible. One could not see the wind but the...
by Warren Gaston | Jul 11, 2020
You never know where lethality is lurking. Is it the shopper in aisle ‘B’, with the toddler, milk, bread, and feminine hygiene products? Is it my neighbor leaning over the fence to ask how my wife and I are doing? Is it my wife who returned from the beauty shop or is...
by Warren Gaston | Jul 10, 2020
All day long, all life long, I am aware of what I am doing. All day long, all life long, I am unaware of what I am doing. The danger: to assume that what I am aware of doing is all that I am doing.
by Warren Gaston | Jul 8, 2020
I sat in my garden reading, a fly landed on my book. Hand raised to swat I changed my mind. The fly walked across the last page of the final chapter. Then I heard the fly sneeze. Sooner or later, I thought. The fly or...
by Warren Gaston | Jul 5, 2020
Need a ride, he said. Yeah, I said. Where you goin’. This way, he said, pointing straight ahead. How far, I said. All the way, he said. To where, I said. The end, he said. The end of the road, I asked. The end of the world, he said. Okay, I said. It beats going alone....
by Warren Gaston | Jun 22, 2020
Pharaoh Akhenaton, sun soaked king, powered by what he considered the right use of a monarch’s might, wrangled the multitude of gods into a single disc of light. Priests, guardians of the way, were disturbed in their souls, and in their coin-filled purses, by the...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 17, 2020
When you speak, the words you speak are very old. Even the new words in your vocabulary are ancient. constructed as they are from bits of much older words. The halves of the 1975 microchip date back eight millennia. All words belong to a family of primordial sounds....
by Warren Gaston | Jun 15, 2020
May 25, 2020 Memorial Day Minneapolis, Minnesota There are times police officers must make split-second consequential decisions without the benefit of time to reflect. But for 8 minutes, 46 seconds officer Chauvin had plenty of time to reflect. For 8 minutes, 46...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 12, 2020
The plane zips cloudward, nose-thumbs earth, rises in collusion with the sky, flies high, shaking off gravity like water off a dog, its sleek metal skin repelling sunshine, sucking clouds through twin funnels like bright cola through a...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 10, 2020
The ship Titanic, heavy with hubris, enfeebled by fire and ice, lost its capacity for displacement and was itself displaced. ________________________________________ hubris = from Greek excessive pride exaggerated...
