Firing up Apple Pay anticipating
first time in any grocery store
in more than fifteen months,
I fulfill pipe dream of picking
own just-ripe juicy produce,
mostly on-sale food-stuffs,
but am sad that my fave
salad bar is (of course)
looong gone: saying
Hello! to old-friend
checkers, they tell
tell me that buffet
became a distant
but fond memory
which kept away
many doc visits.
Copyright. Gerard Sarnat.
Gerard Sarnat MD’s won San Francisco Poetry’s Contest, Poetry in Arts First Place Award/Dorfman Prizes. Nominated for Pushcarts/Best of Net Awards, Gerry’s published in Hong Kong Review, Tokyo Journal, Buddhist Review, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Arkansas Review, Hamilton-Stone Review, New Haven Institute, Texas Review, Vonnegut Journal, Brooklyn Review, SF Magazine, LA Review, NY Times plus by Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Chicago, Columbia presses. He’s authored collections Homeless Chronicles, Disputes, 17s, Melting Ice King. Stanford professor/healthcare CEO, Gerry’s built/staffed clinics for the marginalized, devoted energy/resources toward climate justice on Climate-Action-Now’s board. Married since 1969, Gerry has nine grand/kids. gerardsarnat.com
