It's wonderful, Jenny! Very well written and I have always been intrigued by that topic. Have you ever read Lucille Clifton's Blessing the Boats? There's a section of her Tree of Life series that I think you would enjoy.

I really liked it!
Particularly this line --
"Half-formed, half-burnt, and half-alive"
Is the half that is alive the same half that got burnt?
Sometimes I feel like the only parts of my life that I've got figured out are the very same parts that I screwed up (spectacularly) first.
But that might be a mom thing.

I very much enjoyed it. Well done.

Thank you, everyone! =)

I haven't ever read that book, marikris.

Karen C., it's the same half. Poetically speaking. It's a star/angel we're talking about. =)

I can't find an excerpt (bah, I tried!) so here's a piece of her poem called "lucifer speaks in his own voice":

"i who was called son/ if only of the morning/ saw that some must/ walk or all will crawl/ so slithered into earth/ and seized the serpent in/ the animals i became/ the lord of snake for/ adam and for eve/ i the only lucifer/ light-bringer/ created out of fire/ illuminate i could/ and so/ illuminate i did"

marikis, that's simply lovely! I must try to hunt down a copy of that book, if my local library has one or can get one.

Congratulations, Jenny.

Colin

Oh, I do want to ask, Jenny, if you don't mind answering: why did you choose to write about Lucifer? I feel like that's a stupid question but like I said, I find poems about this topic intriguing.