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A PORTABLE FIRE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2010

Bonnie Raingruber
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Poetry/Fiction: Poems
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Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 105
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

You built a portable fire
deep in the Shasta Woods
under the rain-dripped boughs
of a pine tree on my stormiest day.
Since then you have remained
as a portable fire in my heart
which almost warms
up to satisfaction
my smoke-filled memory
so much so that I still take you
with me wherever I go.