by Warren Gaston | Jun 8, 2020
“Don’t rush to judgment,” my neighbor said, “There’s a lot we don’t know.” “But there’s enough we do know,” I replied. “We’ve witnessed the videoed facts: A handcuffed man is dead. A policeman paid to protect knelt on George Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes 46...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 3, 2020
I am a very nice white man. I don’t hate black people. I’m cordial and polite. In fact, I have several black friends. I prefer Lester Holt to the other two anchors. I have marched for racial justice. I’m admire the courage of Kaepernick for taking a national...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 3, 2020
On the afternoon of June 1, 2020 we witnessed four hundred years of oppression against Blacks telescoped into a microscopically moral man. After his eyes adjusted to the light returning from the dark below ground, After holding his breath to avoid the fumes of...
by Warren Gaston | Jun 2, 2020
We live in a time of expectancy, like the anticipation one feels the split second a hammer is hurled in a room full of windows.
by Warren Gaston | May 30, 2020
The sun burns yellow into corn, brown into walnuts, red into tomatoes, purple into grapes as deep roots suck up the wet dark earth.
by Warren Gaston | May 27, 2020
A man named Henry died fighting General Lee. Had he lived, he would have married Mabel Morgan and been my great grandfather. He did not. That honor went to a man named David, my mother’s grandfather. A man named Charles died fighting Kaiser Wilhelm. Had he lived, he...
by Warren Gaston | May 26, 2020
Why can’t there be flowers in my poems, why can’t there be birds, why can’t there be bees. Why not a column of mountains ranging down a column of words? Where is Yeat’s bee-loud glade, William’s greeny asphodel. Where are Steven’s Key West palms or Mary Olivers’...
by Warren Gaston | May 22, 2020
If left alone, over time, nature will eat the uninhabitable city, brick by brick, building by building, block by block, even swallowing the indigestible core of a nuclear power plant.
by Warren Gaston | May 20, 2020
Available for Hire: King’s horses and men specializing in the reconstruction of broken eggs.
by Warren Gaston | May 18, 2020
Last night on 48 Hours, or was it 2020 ABC, no, it was Dateline the night before on channel 3 we watched a documented murder being solved. A husband came home at three a. m. and, discovering his wife stabbed dead on the blood smeared kitchen floor ran out the front...
