Drinking ice tea in the
Bogachiel Rain Forest,
relaxing in retirement,
observing the Salmon
run along the Skokomish,
bald & golden eagles soar
high above, wait for harbor
seals to capture fresh fish,
climb aboard wooden rafts,
& steal the slippery bright
pink prey for themselves or
possibly feed hungry eaglets.
Large driftwood logs
float down the river’s throat,
anchoring themselves
along the Hood Canal’s
warm salt water shoreline;
mosquitoes breed abundantly
while skittish bullfrogs
stridently soldier vociferous
appetites in concrete storm
drains—conduits emptying
into the sound—shielding them
from sharp-eyed predators
scouring sand & stone for food.
Sterling Warner’s Brief Biography
An author, poet, educator, Pushcart nominee, Sterling Warner’s poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry Life and Times Artvilla.com, The Flatbush Review, Literary Yard, The Fib Review, Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape and The Atherton Review. Warner has published five collections of poetry: Without Wheels, ShadowCat, Rags and Feathers, Edges, and Memento Mori: A Chapbook Redux. Also, in August 2020, he launched, Masques: Flash Fiction & Short Stories, his first collection of fiction.
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times at Artvilla.com ; his publications include
All the Babble of the Souk , Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals and Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande´s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist and the recently published Tesserae , a translation of Carmen Crespo´s Teselas.
You may visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)