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Remembering UHA 1968-69
by Michelle Alton (Shelley Stern)

My Sonnet

Jack had always wanted to publish a literary magazine and finally, in the Spring of 1969 (I think) that dream of his materialized. I submitted a sonnet that I had written for and about Jack. It had no title. It had been over 45 years since I had seen the verse; somehow I had not kept a copy. Michael Steiner recently dug it up for me from the piles of papers he had unearthed in Jack's attic. Reading it now, it might just as well have been a tribute to Jack after his death. I'll read it to you now:

Sun, today you outdo yourself in dance.
A once calm pool quivers; 'tis your ballroom,
Later, the music stops. Night is your tomb.
First boundless blue comes marble, not by chance.
The dark will bring sleep to all who know you.
But in their dreams you're real once more and bright
Enough to guide the weaker in their flight
From Weakness. But just for a blink or two.
Tomorrow gray clouds may displace the black
Past. Off dumb umbrellas bounce tiny drips of thought.
A lucky one might find a crack,
Enter, and stay perhaps to warm its lips.
A myriad of days like this will pass.
But you've touch'd me love, all has changed,
alas........

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