GERARD SARNAT

QUERULOUS

As in quarrelsome
rather that wet behind
the ears kinda naïve mode.

Up like usual since early early;
almost end of Daylight Savings Time
and dark for hours, I am now truly tired.

Picky-in plus picking-on y/our relationships
makes Ger seem separate ain’t in a very good way.
It sure feels as if have just caught inside some car wash.

Gerard Sarnat’s a multiple Pushcart/Best of Net Award nominee. His work’s been widely published; including four collections; by Brooklyn Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, New Delta Review, Buddhist Review, New York Times, Oberlin, Northwestern, Yale, Pomona, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Brown, North Dakota, McMaster, Maine, British Columbia/Toronto/Chicago and Virginia university presses. He’s a Harvard Medical School-trained physician, Stanford professor, healthcare CEO. Currently, he’s devoting energy and resources to dealing with climate justice, serving on Climate Action Now’s board. Gerry’s been married since 1969 and has three kids, six grandsons — and looks forward to future granddaughters. gerardsarnat.com