Battles Below
by Gerard Sarnat
While war rages
immunologically
gazillions of times
per second
between
our forces of good
that keep us alive
and those bad guys
who will
eventually
win, we creatures
are kept content
enough in pastures
chocked
with food
or all manners of
distraction including
glorious rainbows
so there
are no fights
up here on the surface
which can challenge
what really matters.
Gerry Sarnat MD has won the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize; has been nominated for Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards; authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014) and Melting The Ice King (2016); and is widely published including recently by New Ulster, Gargoyle, Stanford, Oberlin, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, Virginia Commonwealth, Harvard, University of Edinburgh, Columbia, Brown, Main Street Rag, American Journal Of Poetry, Poetry Quarterly, New Delta Review, Brooklyn Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, San Francisco Magazine, New York Times. Mount Analogue selected KADDISH for distribution nationwide Inauguration Day. Poetry was chosen for a 50th Harvard reunion Dylan.
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