Saturday, August 1, 2026

Sheltered Voyeurs by Sterling Warner

Elina Volkova

Sheltered Voyeurs

Looking out of our Marriott hotel window,

we watched a crescent roll float down

the gutter like a storm rat dreamboat

as thrill-crazed bicyclers would hydroplane

over puddles that reached the middle

of Main Street. Room service interrupted

meditating on nature’s magic, yet we

liberated our minds in a matter of minutes

allowing them to wander, merge, 

and dissipate as freely as wads of paper,

discarded food, and soggy litterbug debris 

gushing past below us like sewer surfers.



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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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