Reflections Poem
History and humanities
Volume 204 - Issue 6

The daily coracle

Author:  Gina Mercer

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 243. || doi: 10.5694/mja15.01087
Published online: 4 April 2016
She’s almost over …
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she’s almost over
the depression
it’s just
every morning
she wakes
in a noxious puddle
of bilge water
at the bottom of
her tiny coracle

she has to
try to
rinse herself
free of its oily grip
before she can
bright-face the day

Author

  • Gina Mercer
  • 1. Hobart, TAS

Correspondence: ginamercer@netspace.net.au

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