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 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 | Sep 15, 2021
I treasure a book titled Hell Broke Loose written by and given to me by my friend and poet Warren Gaston. The horrors of the Holocaust expressed by a non-Jew brought me to tears. His poems capture both the cruelty of the Nazis and the hopelessness of the Jews. Being...
by Warren Gaston | Mar 9, 2021
Sitting on the balcony looking out at Tampa Bay I watch the day progress in shadows. Early morning, I see the sun rise in the east, shadows cast by the balcony banister run west across the terra-cotta deck, crossing the tiles at oblique angles. At ten the precise...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 23, 2020
I learned to eat oysters by overriding their gross appearance with mental force, willed my revulsed senses to stand down, then placed the gray globule in my mouth. I forgave, to my delight, the oyster’s sensory offenses and let the bivalve mollusk linger behind...
by Warren Gaston | Nov 19, 2020
leaves chasing wind wind chasing leaves either way, November day
