GERARD SARNAT
BORSCHT BELT BELLHOP
discount room
services, lotsa
pasta marinara,
spaghettification
aka noodle effect
= vertical streeetch+
horizontalcompression
of objects into long thin
shapes. black hole donut
singularity or astrophysics
one way trip toward outer
space-time continuum,
on the Catskills other
side, weight room
clanging, titration
to maximal effect,
$200,000,000 in
manny’s fanny
pack, you can
smell money
honey ninny
kinda nanny
Gerard Sarnat has recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He’s authored four collections: HOMELESS CHRONICLES (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014) and Melting The Ice King (2016) which included work published in Gargoyle, Lowestoft, American Journal of Poetry, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Tishman Review plus was featured in New Verse News, Songs of Eretz, Avocet, LEVELER, tNY, StepAway, Bywords, Floor Plan. Dark Run, Scarlet Leaf, Good Men Project, Anti-Heroin Chic, Winamop, Poetry Circle and Tipton Review feature sets of new poems. Mount Analogue selected Sarnat’s sequence, KADDISH FOR THE COUNTRY, for distribution as a pamphlet in Seattle on Inauguration Day 2017 as well as the next morning as part of the Washington DC and nationwide Women’s Marches. For Huffington Post/other reviews, readings, publications, interviews; visit GerardSarnat.com. Harvard/Stanford educated, Gerry’s worked in jails, built/staffed clinics for the marginalized, been a CEO of healthcare organizations and Stanford Medical School professor. Married since 1969, he has three children, four grandkids.