2020 / poetry / author
GERARD SARNAT
CREDENZA
…
The dining room sideboard
holds food & drink
from which guests
while listening to Creedence
Clearwater Revival
sing “Proud Mary”
choose their hearts’ desires
not knowing that they
are indulging in what
human remains just came
out of wood chippers
in a bloody backyard
where we knew nothing.
In Italian credenza means
“confidence,” & is
just the thing noble
Christian households need
before meals during
The Middle Ages when it
was so common to be
poisoned by enemies.
Thus it was customary for
royals to make servants
taste everything placed
on tables called credenzas.
…
GERARD SARNAT won the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize, and has been nominated for a handful of recent Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards. Gerry is widely published in academic-related journals including: University Chicago, Stanford, Oberlin, Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Pomona, Johns Hopkins, Wesleyan, University of San Francisco. Plus national journals including: Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, MiPOesias, American Journal Of Poetry, Clementine, pamplemousse, Deluge, Poetry Quarterly, Hypnopomp, Free State Review, Poetry Circle, Poets And War, Wordpeace, Cliterature, Qommunicate, Indolent Books, Pandemonium Press, Boston Literary Magazine, Texas Review, San Antonio Review, Brooklyn Review, San Francisco Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, Fiction Southeast and The New York Times and international publications including: Review Berlin, Voices Israel, Foreign Lit, New Ulster, Southbank. He’s authored the collections Homeless Chronicles (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014), Melting the Ice King (2016). Gerry is a physician who’s built and staffed clinics for the marginalized as well as a Stanford professor and healthcare CEO. Currently he is devoting energy/ resources to deal with global warming. Gerry’s been married since 1969 with three kids plus six grandsons, and is looking forward to future granddaughters.
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