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9 1/2 Hours Into Daylight Savings Time

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Post breakfast

My youngest’s

Boychick kids

So close both

Often mostly

Seem as if sibs

Oy same skin

One organism

 

Don’t exhaust

Themselves at

End cul-de-sac

Playing soccer

or riding bikes

But enthused to

Hike on our trail

Through woods.

 

They turn trip 

Into a personal

Wordsworthian

Magical Mystery

Tour -- drag logs

To ford + cross

Creek: each picks

Wildflower posy

 

To bring back for

Mommy although

Coachie demands

Upon return we’ll

All 1st scrub hands

& exposed arms

To wash off oils

Poison oak twigs.

 

Then we shower

Together before

Requisite hot tub

With light show

After which now

Regale Bubbe with

Recall how many 

Cottontails on path!

Meet the Author:

Late-phase poet arrived in seventh decade, aphorist, humorist or sometimes meanderist; Gerard Sarnat’s a multiple Pushcart/Best of Net Award nominee. Activism Through Poetry: How Gerard Sarnat Uses Verse as a Form of Protest is a 2025 retrospective: culterateblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/activism. His work’s been widely published; including four collections; by Rattle, London Arts-Based Research Centre, Israel Association of Writers in English, The Nature of Our Times/Poets For Science, Gravity of the Thing, Brooklyn Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, New Delta Review, Buddhist Review, New York Times, Oberlin, St. John’s University, Northwestern, Yale, Pomona, Harvard, Missouri Baptist, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Grinnell, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Brown, North Dakota, McMaster, Maine, British Columbia/Toronto/Chicago, Virginia and Alabama 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. Sarnat’s belonged to the longest-running U.S. Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group. Gerry’s been married since 1969 and has three kids, six grandsons — and looks forward to future granddaughters. Gerardsarnat.com

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