Elegy for My Father

For Jay P. Gurian, for Father's Day 2025

My father was born April 16, 1929 and died of Covid pneumonia on July 20, 2021. For a number of years, I have been working on a poem that might serve as an elegy. I believe it is now complete for Father’s Day this year. I hope you will find resonances in it for your father, and if you are a father, for yourself.

If you have read my memoir here on Su…