Poetry
Bio-Rhythms, 24August25, 811pm
Twenty days ’til turning that big 8-0
doing your damndest
to kick my multiple
middle of night
awakenings
(not unlike
our new
grand
child)
Gerardo
now attempts
to spend at least
a very few minutes
outside before the light
vanishes or after it returns
each morningtime to reset circadians.
Gerard Sarnat
Gerard Sarnat’s a multiple Pushcart/Best of Net Award nominee. Sarnat’s widely published, including four collections, by Rattle, 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. Gerry’s a Harvard Medical School-trained physician, Stanford professor, healthcare CEO, devoted energy/resources to climate justice, serving on Climate Action Now’s board. He’s been married since 1969, has three kids, seven grandsons — and looks forward to future granddaughters. gerardsarnat.com