Rear-View Mirror Bridal Canopy → Windshield’s Vision-Quest Maxims
by Gerard Sarnat
Plus his tragedies inevitably finished with death
And Cervantes’s Don Quixote in rusty old armor
Tilted at windmills, Sancho Panza dragging nag
Which Sholem Aleichem’s Teyve then riffed off
In Fiddler on Roof but without shtetl windmills
Then later on Chekov’s gun introduced in Act I
Must of course be fired in Act III’s conclusion
What deus ex machina clarion calls now herald
Mid-septuagenarian’s Holy Grail endgame?
About the author
Gerard Sarnat is an eighty-year-old late-phase often graphic chronicler arrived in seventh decade, aphorist, humorist or sometimes meanderist; He's a multiple prize winner plus Pushcart/Best of Net Award nominee who also has been invited to serve as judge for competitions. Activism Through Poetry: How Gerard Sarnat Uses Verse as a Form of Protest is a 2025. His words have been widely published in four collections; including Rattle, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Black Mountain College Press, Poetry Lighthouse, Anomaly, Songs of Eretz, London Arts-Based Research Centre, Israel Association of Writers in English, The Nature of Our Times/Poets For Science, Hyperbolic Math-Poetry Review, and many more. He’s a Harvard College and Medical School-trained physician, Stanford professor, healthcare CEO. Currently, he’s devoting energy and resources dealing with climate justice, serving on Climate Action Now’s board. He has belonged to the longest-running U.S. Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue Group. Gerry’s been married since 1969 and has three kids, seven grandsons — and looks forward to future granddaughters. Gerard can be found at gerardsarnat.com