Boomer in Winter
Gerard Sarnat
Firebrand’s heyday,
All flowers can bloom
has been replaced
by a new valence.
Playing in your
or my thermals,
sounds of body parts
tear apart like
Shiva garments.
Life’s morphed
from transparent
to tight then toxic
when I’m opened up
as a cellophane wrapper
on a pack of cigarettes.
Gerard Sarnat authored four collections: HOMELESS CHRONICLES from Abraham to Burning Man(2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014) and Melting The Ice King (2016). Work from Ice King was accepted by over seventy magazines, including Gargoyle and Lowestoft Chronicle and The American Journal of Poetry, and featured in Songs of Eretz, Avocet, LEVELER, tNY, StepAway, Bywords, and Floor Plan. Since then new work has been featured in Dark Run and Scarlet Leaf and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. For Huffington Post and other reviews, reading dates, publications, interviews; visit Gerard Sarnat.com. Harvard/Stanford educated, Gerry’s worked in jails as a physician, built/staffed clinics for the marginalized, been a CEO of healthcare organizations and Stanford Medical School professor. Married since 1969, he has three children and four grandkids.