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Steel, a prose poem by @EvryManJac
©2019 by Jack A. Urquhart Stainless steel was the medium he favored, forever hard and utilitarian— the price my father paid to make his way in the world. And sometimes, small in his shadow, I would watch from a distance, … Continue reading
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
Pheromones, free verse by @jackaurquhart
©2014 by Jack A. Urquhart “Is it ‘cause of them?” my daughter asked, setting aside her dolls, her Pretty Ponies with their rainbow manes. “Those fairymoans?” she stammered, wide eyes the color of sunset canyons. “Is that why— why you want to … 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
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