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"The Fire."

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Strapped on my
snowshoes and set off.

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Across the lake
making beaver tails,

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through the woods on the
other side and up the hill,

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to look back through the
snow to where I began.

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Then returned to split wood.

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Fed the fire and set
off, again making

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tracks in the field
to follow where

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I choose while the fire burned.

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Returned to the fire and
watched the hypnotic coals,

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the sibilant flame.

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Watched the snow
through the windows.

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Watched the lines in my hand,
the lifeline bisecting my palm.

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The girl who told
me it was ominous.

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Rewrite an old magazine.

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Listen to the radio, and
live through old photos.

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Saw a different
me five years ago,

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a stranger with a pallid face.

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Picked on the guitar
and tried to sing,

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felt a strange laughter in the
floor creaking under my feet.

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Thought of the migration of
birds and the family of wolves,

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the songs of whales,
matrix of the sea.

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Tried to write, tried to read.

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Fed the fire again,
and walked out

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in the snow and coming night.

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How stark the presence
of trees, the black air.

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The snow on my face, how
close and cold the sleep.

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I walk into what I
know, but can't see.