Economic language

with keen focus

on voice plus image

lines subdued in

diction and rhythms

sense of restraint

no matter the length.

Touch of Lorca's 

duende loving ledges

….even wounds.

Axe your trite cliched

cute too descriptive

titles: Please do not lead

witness, let reader

inspirations be composer

to participate in

narrative--even single word!

--thanks to Blue Horse Press

Gerard Sarnat’s a multiple Pushcart/Best of Net Award nominee. His work’s been widely published; including four collections; by 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 been married since 1969 and has three kids, six grandsons — and looks forward to future granddaughters. gerardsarnat.com