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| Jair Hernandez |
Dancing the tango down Main Street
grabbing a complete stranger’s hands
leading partners chest-to-chest, alternating
upper thigh & hips proactively, like a sailor
on leave, steppin’ out, swaying like Dean Martin
taking small steps, three sheets to the wind.
Skipping smooth, flat stones across shallow koi ponds,
ripples roll like miniature arching waves
crashing into rooted water plants along the shoreline;
sitting for hours at railway junctions watching trains
waiting for the streamlined Denver Zephyr, observing only
two-level louvered stock cars transporting pigs & cattle.
Gamboling through downpours without an umbrella,
kicking colorful oil rings resting on puddles,
ducking inside an all-night FM radio station
at the edge of town, announcing call letters before
introducing an uninterrupted hour of Pink Floyd classics
returning to deserted sidewalks, owning them till dawn.
(first appeared in Uppagus in December 2020)
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| Sterling Warner |
Washington-based author, poet, and educator, Sterling Warner’s works have appeared in such magazines, journals, and anthologies as Verse-Virtual, Ekphrastic Review. Warner’s poetry/fiction includes Rags and Feathers, Without Wheels, ShadowCat, Edges, Memento Mori, Serpent’s Tooth, Flytraps: Poems, Cracks of Light: Pandemic Poetry & Fiction, Halcyon Days: Collected Fibonacci, Abraxas: Poems, Gunilla’s Garden: Poems (2025), and Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories. He currently writes, hosts “virtual” poetry/fiction readings, and enjoys fishing along the Hood Canal.
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