Bio

A Washington-based author, poet, educator, and Pushcart Nominee, Sterling Warner's works have appeared in such literary magazines, journals, and anthologies as the Anti-Heroin Chic, The Fib Review, and Sparks Of Calliope. Warner's volumes of poetry include Rags and Feathers, Without Wheels, Shadowcat, Edges, Memento Mori, Serpent's Tooth, Flytraps: Poems, "Cracks Of Light: Pandemic Poetry & Fiction, Halcyon Days: Collected Fibonacci (2023) and Abraxas: Poems (2024)-as well as Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories. He currently writes, hosts "virtual" poetry/fiction readings, and enjoys fishing and boating along the Hood Canal.

Launching lawn darts as snowflakes dust
dormant grass, the icy blanket
thickens inch by inch
smothering
mushrooms
and
weeds
that
push
beyond
dichondra
and tall fescue blades
while steel shafts pierce frozen tundra.