Tag Archives: parental sorrow

Returns of the Day, a prose poem by @EvryManJac

Posted on March 8, 2019 by jaurquhart

          ©2019 by Jack A. Urquhart (for Dillon from Dad) Today is your birthday. You would’ve been forty years old. Forty!  Imagine that. Sometimes I do. I imagine what you might’ve become, And how you could’ve … Continue reading →

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Dillon, In No Particular Order, a prose poem by @EvryManJac

Posted on August 2, 2018 by jaurquhart

          ©2018 by Jack A. Urquhart Here you come ‘round again it’s five years now since you took your leave and still these parceled posts arrive in the present tense mementos of you come home again … Continue reading →

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“March”: a poem by @jackaurquhart

Posted on April 30, 2014 by jaurquhart

(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 →

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A Birthday Wish For Dillon, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on March 7, 2014 by jaurquhart

©2014 by Jack Andrew Urquhart 682 words Dear Dillon, Dear Son, It’s March again—what would have been your thirty-fifth birthday arriving hard and heavy on the heels of Ash Wednesday this year. I say hard and heavy because it feels … Continue reading →

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One Month, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on September 2, 2013 by jaurquhart

©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart, 680 words September 2, 2013 Dear Dillon, Dear Son, It is one month today since you left us, since you died in a Seattle hospital with your mother and I standing at your bedside.  Oh … Continue reading →

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