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4:57, first dusk since Daylight Savings Time lapsed,
we live on
the shore of the Pacific’s rim.
Fibrillating bloody yolk broken,
orangetemple shapeshift greenflash goldenbrownmuffin
done, I’m so happy
sharing this moment with a grandson
who says there are forty billion
habitable earths and at least one
has volcanos that spout chocolate.
Elliot gestures as a red-hot flotilla
of crockodilios
punctuated by wellfleets of pointillist ember prey
makes its way
across the horizon
only to disappears into a cloudbank
never to come out. At the storm's
critical juncture, the boy wonders,
Why thunder has jagged zigzags
or is it the other thing -- and why?
Rose-colored polarized lenses
are the closest I get to worship.
Gerard Sarnat splits time between his San Francisco Bay Area forest home and Southern California's beaches. He is a seeker and Jewbu, married forty years/father of three/grandfather, physician to the disenfranchised, past CEO and Stanford professor, and virginal poet at the tender age of sixty-two. Gerry has recently been published or is forthcoming in Aha!Poetry, AscentAspirations, Atavar, AutumnLeaves, BathysphericReview, Bird&Moon, BlackZinnias, BlueJewYorker, ChicagoPoetry, CRITJournal, Defenestration, Etude, EZAAPP, Flutter, FurnaceReview, HissQuarterly, Jack, Juked, LanguageandCulture, LoudPoet, MyFavoriteBullet, NewWorksReview, Nthposition, OrigamiCondom, PensonFire, PoetsAgainstWar, Rambler, RiverWalkJournal, SlowTrains, SoMa, Spindle, StonetableReview, SubtleTea, SugarMule, ThePotomac, ThievesJargon, UndergroundVoices, UnlikelyStories, and WildernessHouseReview among others. Just Like the Jones', about his experience caring for Jonestown survivors, was solicited by JonestownAnnual Report and will appear later this year. He is currently working on an epic prose poem, The Homeless Chronicles. The California Institute of Arts and Letters' Pessoa Press will publish his first book. Gerry is a member of Poets and Writers, qualifying in both Creative Nonfiction and Poetry.