Gerald Sarnat

Poetry

 

 

 

5 AM Equanimity Practice

 

Hundreds of hungry

inmates line up for

fixes -- a pressure cooker.

 

 

 

Teal Blue Sky Turns Thunder On The Jailbird Yard

 

Pink lightning -- hunted

down, drugged -- flying

meditation’s my antidote.

 

 

 

Gay Men’s Group Process

 

We weave

primary gang colors 

into a quilt of intimacy.

 

 

 

The A Words 

 

Communication’s difficult.

We all fit somewhere

on the spectrum.

 

 

 

11 -> 71: Post Prison

 

Surf the Pacific

after 60 years --a kid’s

zest again – plop in.

 

 

 

Gerard Sarnat’s been nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize. He’s authored four collections: HOMELESS CHRONICLES (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014) and Melting The Ice King (2016) which included work published in Gargoyle, Lowestoft, American Journal of Poetry plus was featured in Songs of Eretz, Avocet, LEVELER, tNY, StepAway, Bywords, Floor Plan. Dark Run, Scarlet Leaf, Good Men Project and Anti-Heroin Chic feature sets of new poems. Mount Analogue selected KADDISH FOR THE COUNTRY for distribution as a pamphlet on Inauguration Day 2017 and as part of the Washington/nationwide Women’s Marches. For Huffington Post/other reviews, readings, publications, interviews; visit GerardSarnat.com. Harvard/Stanford educated, Gerry’s worked in jails, built/staffed clinics for the marginalized, been a CEO of healthcare organizations and Stanford Medical School professor. Married since 1969, he has three children, four grandkids.