Sterling Warner
Autumnal Equinox Sabbat
Croton-on-Hudson, New York's
Great Jack O' Lantern Blaze
features carved pumpkin lightshows
illuminates autumn witching hours
where sky clad wiccans carry candles
dance around bonfires, pay tribute
to ancestorial spirits pervading life
as Mabon marks the second harvest's
end; meanwhile the great triple goddess
turns from Mother to Crone, fall's final
harvest transpires, winter encroaches,
& boney backs curve under the weight
of mental/physical tribulations & trials
embracing & expecting dwindling light.
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, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ekphrastic Review, VerseVirtual, Poetry Life & Times, Shot Glass Journal and The Galway Review. Warner's volumes of poetry include Rags And Feathers, Without Wheels, Shadowcat, Edges, Memento Mori, Serpent's Tooth, Flytraps: Poems, and Cracks Of Light: Pandemic Poetry & Fiction 2019-2022, Halcyon Days: Collected Fibonacci, Abraxas: Poems, Gunilla's Garden: Poetry (August 2025), as well as Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories. Currently, Warner writes, turns wood, hosts/participates in "virtual" poetry readings, and enjoys retirement in Washington state.