Friday, January 7, 2011

Fire

by Elizabethe Plante


I am in dire need of a fire that will talk back to me with a series of cracks and an occasional pop, embrace me in its radiant cloak of warmth, let me look into the blaze, and inspire my imagination. Wait a minute--is this a fire I'm talking about?


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Elizabethe Plante calls herself an ordinary person who at age seven wanted nothing more than to be one of the three Supremes, to be a scientist, and to marry a firefighter. She has not yet managed to accomplish these three wishes.