Sarah Rosenblatt

Sarah Rosenblatt is a poet and therapist specializing in intergenerational trauma. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn College and an MSW from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Sarah’s poetry has been published in myriad journals including Ploughshares, Poetry East, Heartland, The Portland Review, The Brooklyn Review, and others. She is the author of three books of poetry published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Sarah has a husband, Craig, who is an artist and therapist, two sons currently in college, and a dog named Mitzvah who was bred to be her family’s very best friend. Sarah Rosenblatt was born in NYC and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Easy read of the poems in the images above:

Undying Disappointment

She said I looked pretty in that photo

from long ago.

“What happened?” She asked.

But grandmas are supposed to

have compassion, 

to be cheerers in our corner, to bring us up 

from behind,

yet my grandma liked people— just so—

and as the deceased become

even more so, 

my grandma is no longer discriminating.

Thwack

Having been sick for weeks

was humbling.

Not that I had been arrogant

but I had been healthy, 

not easily perturbed.

The pandemic didn’t include happy-go-lucky

skipping on the way to work

bursts of laughter 

or jumping into easygoing conversations. 

The dandelions don’t give a hoot.

Twilight rants and raves,

and is broken into thirds.  

Now sleeplessness dawns on me 

one too many times 

and no-one can surmount 

the craziness in the yellow brick.