TUESDAY: Japanese Water Lilies

BY GERARD SARNAT

Copyright is held by the author.

i.
fire day seven . . .
back home we made it through night!
power on and off.
can’t drink water, but LA
air quality great — crazy?

ii.
Soothing, you try to
get grandkids to drink while I
track potty training.

iii.
survived on roadkill
rode chopper redwood forests
to Gulf stream waters

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Gerard Sarnat’s a multiple Pushcart/Best of Net Award nominee. His work’s been widely published, including four collections, by Rattle, Brooklyn Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Gargoyle, New Delta Review, Buddhist Review, New York Times, Oberlin, Northwestern, Yale, Pomona, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Brown, North Dakota, McMaster, Maine, British Columbia/Toronto/Chicago and Virginia 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. Gerry’s married since 1969, has three kids, seven grandsons — and looks forward to future granddaughters. gerardsarnat.com
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