'Touched with Fire' is from Starving for the Marvelous Poems by Jean Hull Herman from Word Wrangler Publishing, 2002. 'Touched with Fire' is reprinted here with poet's permission.
AURORA ANTONOVIC has been asked to guest edit a Canadian issue of Muse Apprentice Guild for the winter issue. If you know any Canadian poets you could recommend, who have yet to be published at M.A.G., please send them my way. I'll be reading until December 15, and although I cannot choose more than 4 pieces per author, I'd like each poet to send 6-8 poems or two pieces of fiction from which to choose. Email to aurora_antonovic@yahoo.com
JEAN HULL HERMANTouched with Firecopyright JEAN HULL HERMAN"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"- Robert Browning Andrea del SartoIf I must be touched with fire, Lord, ignite in me the red sprite of lightning! Let my strands reach out of the white atmosphere into your black robe of space. Let me be glorious. Lord; let me fling myself upwards, and play about the air. Let me surge across the miles of clouds that hide the cities of the plain. It is by your grace that the world will have seen me at last, is it not? I have not hidden my blue jet, Lord, but struck it forth to fan the top of Heaven, Let my hair become purple tendrils spread out regally across the tenuous ionosphere. I will have danced in blood-red glory, been, and instantly not been again. I do not want to be seen as Lucifer's advocate, easy and obvious. I do not want my glory to be contemplated as an accident of madness. I wish to illuminate this world for You. I wish to rise to Heaven at last, perhaps to be a Light for my Maker.
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