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[a Walleah Press blog]

MARGO RUCKERT

 

     coastal

 

she bobs across the city

on the morning rush tide

like cork on water

 

always on a high

bounce, oxygen-fresh

muscles to go

 

if you asked her

how she was feeling

she’d shout you champagne

 

orange juice and ice

with compassion like this

her enemies dissolve

 

she’s fizz, flotsam

head above the surges

of water-mad workers

 

jealous of her freedom

waves of strangers

confront her future

 

if she’s wise

she’ll duck-dive

why waste explanations

 

on signs and billboards

female nudes fish for her

dollars—she won't buy it

 

dipping a toe

outside at lunch

she tests the temperature

 

hot end-of-month sales

hot-for-her offers

it’s hard to stay cool

 

in a moving waterway

of exceptionally-today

young

 

she’s up to her pecs

cool coastal

picking off the predators

 

 

 

Margo Ruckert’s poems have appeared in Blue Dog, LiNQ, Hecate, unsweetened 2006 (UNSW), The Best Poems of 2006, Education and FAW Books. She is a member of Walter Street Poets and Poetry Australia.