Bio

A Washington-based author, poet, educator, and Push Cart Nominee, Sterling Warner's works have appeared in such literary magazines, journals, and anthologies as The Fib Review, Bewildering Stories, Ariel Chart, The Ekphrastic Review, Danse Macabre, Scarlet Leaf Review, The Vita Brevis Poetry Magazine, and The Shot Glass Journal. Warner's volumes of poetry include Rags And Feathers, Without Wheels, Shadowcat, Edges, Memento Mori, Serpent's Tooth, and Flytraps: Poems (2022)- as well as Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories. Currently, Warner writes, turns wood, hosts "virtual" poetry readings, and enjoys retirement.

Red
wood
seats &
patio
benches carefully
arranged, neither bodies in sight
nor spiritual essence perceived, just row upon row
of empty chairs gone silver in
sunlight, wind & rain
politic
rally's
charm
gone.