Poetry By Fred Gerhard

      Sunghwan Yoon CC




Going On


Reality is snow in your collar
Stinging of something you know
but forgot was going on.

I’m going on. Are you?
On the other side of snow,
beyond the prickling sky,
across the road.

Or like so many friends quiet
as snow, have you fallen
for the cold?

Here then
is my small warmth — 
Just as real.




​Fred Gerhard led poetry therapy groups at Community Healthlink in Worcester for many years. His poems have appeared in Amethyst Review, Asylum Magazine, Entropy Magazine, Friends Journal, Pif Magazine, POETiCA REViEW, Sylvia Magazine, and other magazines and anthologies. He lives in rural New England with his wife, son, and ducks.
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