Winter Solstice Festivals of Light with the Mostest, or Leastest by Gerard Sarnat
i. Bodhicitta* Light
Unusual holiday season upon us,
you and I can make it less odd
by emptying out, compassionately
reawakening our clogged hearts
to open that flowing river of love.
* Pali for Buddhist ideal of “awakened heart”
Thanks to Bette Yozell
ii. U.S.--Lite Scales Up
Endlessly reptilian (or paranoid),
even though Corona virus vaccines
are now said to be in about top centile
of most optimistic research expectations
let us be confident but not too complacent
as demanding bioengineering run-rate task begun
and we learn that the Trump Administration passed
on chance to secure supply of a ton more Pfizer vials.
iii. Pfizer Flourish Or Fizzle?
“COVID-19: Chasing Science to Save Lives” Live Stream
Harvard Chan School of Public Health, 12.9.20, noon PST
Anthony Fauci interviewed by Sanjay Gupta:
Hot off the presses report two British healthcare workers
(at least) experienced significant allergic diatheses
on just this second day of their mass vaccination
was met with less than alarm, but an obvious recommendation
to take precautions, particular care if food sensitivity history
-- although not discontinue shots in our arms…yet.
“I abandoned these pieces a year ago because they didn't ringading last winter, but here we are again almost (in my Northern Hemisphere though not down under).”
Gerard Sarnat has been nominated for the pending 2022 Science Fiction Poetry Association Dwarf Star Award, won San Francisco Poetry’s 2020 Contest, the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize, and has been nominated for handfuls of 2021 and previous Pushcarts plus Best of the Net Awards. Gerry is widely published including in 2022 Awakenings Review, 2022 Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County Celebration, 2022 Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival Anthology, HitchLit Review, Lowestoft, Washington Square/NYU Review, The Deronda Review, Jewish Writing Project, Hong Kong Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Buddhist Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Arkansas Review, Hamilton-Stone Review, Northampton Review, New Haven Poetry Institute, Texas Review, Vonnegut Journal, Brooklyn Review, San Francisco Magazine, Monterey Poetry Review, The Los Angeles Review, and The New York Times as well as by Slippery Rock, Northwestern, Pomona, Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, North Dakota, McMaster, Maine, University of British Columbia and University of Chicago presses. He is a Harvard College and Medical School-trained 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 climate justice, and serves on Climate Action Now’s board. Gerry’s been married since 1969 with progeny consisting of four collections (Homeless Chronicles: From Abraham To Burning Man, Disputes, 17s, Melting the Ice King) plus three kids/ six grandsons — and is looking forward to potential future granddaughters.