Bio

An 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, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ekphrastic Review, Danse Macabre, The Vita Brevis Poetry Magazine, and Shot Glass Journal. Warner's volumes of poetry include Rags And Feathers, Without Wheels, Shadowcat, Edges, Memento Mori, Serpent's Tooth, Cracks of Light: Pandemic Poems & Fiction 2019-2022, and Flytraps: Poems (2022)—as well as Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories. Currently, Warner writes, turns wood, hosts "virtual" poetry readings, and enjoys retirement in Washington state.

Mid
town
culture
evolves as
matinee idols
exit stage doors, sign autographs,
pose for photo ops, gaze beyond trembling noir skies
scintillating orbs flickering
shadow bands waving
as yin yang
façades
shape
night.