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Twenty-four thousand one hundred thirty-seven days, by @jackaurquhart
©2014 by Jack A. Urquhart 786 words Lately, I have been thinking about the passage of time and how quickly our individual allotments pile up—and how meaningfully. Or not. There is nothing new in this, of course. We … Continue reading
Haiku for My Son, by @jackaurquhart
For Dillon Tyler Urquhart March 8, 1979—August 2, 2013 ©2014 by Jack A. Urquhart
You Don’t Say, free verse by @jackaurquhart
©2014 by Jack Andrew Urquhart People say the damnedest things, people meaning, you, of course— say you can’t stand your mother, whose definition of trauma is a frizzled permanent wave. Say that your children’s lunacy makes of you a mental … Continue reading
Surrendering to Cliché, free verse by @jackaurquhart
©2014 by Jack A. Urquhart One after another, they fall— chestnuts from the hospital bed, the utterances of old age: “ ‘Beats me, how time gets away,” she crepitates, this crisp of sun-dried human being, this wisp of ossified womanhood. … Continue reading
Queer Science: free verse by @jackaurquhart
©2014 by Jack A. Urquhart Do you know Einstein’s Law of Photoelectric Effect— how electrons can lose their metallic bonds, become sub-atomic emissions, spun solo into space? Well, neither do I. Not really. Only layman’s knowledge. Just enough to speculate, … Continue reading
“March”: a poem by @jackaurquhart
(Some free verse … for my son, Dillon) March You were tardy aborning, a day late and mad — —as a March hare; it took a suction cap to coax you into the world. Pushed to fight or flight, a … Continue reading
When God Happens, by @jackaurquhart
© 2014 by Jack A. Urquhart 562 words I have been thinking a lot about God and religion lately or, perhaps more aptly, about the place that notions of Deity figure in my life. Which is not typically a … Continue reading
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Indie Authors: Yakkers, Tweeters, Braggers? Is that all there is to us? by @JackAUrquhart
©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart 2177 words “To me, it seems disrespectful … that a ‘wannabe’ assumes it’s all so easy s/he can put out a ‘published novel’ without bothering to read, study, or do the research … Self-publishing is … Continue reading
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A Rocky Mountain Lullaby (For Dillon), by @jackaurquhart
©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart (1115 words) September 17, 2013 Dear Dillon, Dear Son, I have been thinking about your early years, trying to remember some of the salient moments of your childhood, events that seem conspicuous in terms of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Urquhart, Boulder, Colorado, death of a child, Dillon Tyler Urquhart, Dillon Urquhart, Every Man Jack, Father's grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Jack A. Urquhart, Jack Andrew Urquhart, parental grief, Rocky Mountain High, Rocky Mountains, son's memorial, toddlers
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Book Review, George Saunders’ TENTH OF DECEMBER: In search of the deepest, dearest thing
By Jack A. Urquhart, ©2013 (1800 words) “We left home, married, had children of our own, found the seeds of meanness blooming also within us.” The foregoing line from “Sticks,” one of the dark (and darkly funny) morality tales in … Continue reading
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