IN MEMORIAM: JACK ELLIOTT MYERS
November 29, 1941 - November 23, 2009
Cirrus
I'd like to leave
a lighter imprint
on the world
than I'd formerly
meant. Just a scent,
not the thud of the thing
steaming on a plate.
Instead of "I told you so!"
let my epitaph be
the glance, the edge,
the mist. The delicately
attenuated swirl
of an innuendo
instead of a thunderhead.
The rain that fell
when I was ambitious
seemed conspiringly rushed
in my way. But the same rain
today tastes of here and now
because of where it's been.
I'd like to be gentle
with small, great things.
They are larger
than what we think
we came here for.
I'd like to be an eye of light
that opens the air
and burns beyond ambition,
like the sun that can't see us
and is beyond our reach
yet is in us a trillion times over.
—Jack Myers
A Memorial Celebration for Jack Myers was held on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 3 PM in the Hughes-Trigg Theater, 3140 Dyer Street, Dallas 75275. Nearly 400 writers, readers and literary admireres came out to honor our co-founder.
Click here to preview the full program for the Jack Myers Memorial Celebration.
Click here to read the full text of Joe Ahearn's tribute to Jack Myers.
Click here to read the full text of Brian Clements' tribute to Jack Myers.
Click here to see the Tribute video by Ellen Myers Fontana. A full tape of the Memorial will soon be available.