Fire poker
An iron rod for stirring a fire — the small tool that keeps a flame alive by minor interventions.
A fire poker in a dream is the dream's image of the small tool that keeps a flame alive by minor interventions. The poker does not add fuel; the poker rearranges what is already burning so that the heat stays useful. The dream brings the poker when something in your life — a project, a friendship, a conversation in progress — needs not new material but a small reorganisation of what is already there to keep the heat going. A poker used carefully, the embers reset and the flame returning, is the dream affirming the small kept attention. A poker swung carelessly, the fire scattered across the hearth, is the dream noting that the small tool was used impatiently, and what was a contained flame has become a fire across the floor.