i. un[en]titled haiku

we’re all our warriors —
two Abe tribes clash — go extinct?
–soldier if needed…

ii. Wear Air Jordans Toward Thunderous Gaza War?

World’s got your skirmishes
With Hezbollah on Lebanon
Border
        Err
West Bank-Yemen-Syria or anon
Iran just a smidgeon’s error from
Mushroomed
                 Engagement
+ Gerardo’s worried more ‘n more
Where our morons are leading us…
China
        Russia
North Korea ain’t beyond yonder fray
–Which must leave Ukraine & climate change asunder.

iii. Lost Last Home For Sacred Sorrows?
–dedicated to Shoshana

Poncia: All we have is our hands and a hole in God’s earth.
— Federico García Lorca, The House of Bernarda Alba, Act I

Four generations our dear steely scarred Jewish women…

Mizrachi desert peeps long-lived together
In the currently war-torn land
Fled to stay with your relatives
In this more recently uncivil scary America

& greet their gracious Ashkenazi hostesses
Who are also now perpetually
In same pain — unbear/breakable
Group hugs plus tears of enraged Holocausts

After which each returns into her Defarge
Like silent knitting as they smile
While decide just pretend rather’n
Cry wailing walls nearly cross a Jordan River.

Author Bio:

Poet, aphorist or sometimes meanderist; Gerard Sarnat is widely published internationally in print and online. He has been nominated for the pending Science Fiction Poetry Association Dwarf Star Award, won San Francisco Poetry’s Contest, the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize; and has been nominated for handfuls of Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards. Gerry is a Harvard College and Medical School-trained physician who’s built and staffed clinics for the disenfranchised as well as a Stanford professor and healthcare CEO. Currently, he is devoting energy/resources to deal with climate justice and serves on Climate Action Now’s board.