
9 1/2 Hours Into Daylight Savings Time

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