Recovery
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* David Gilbert

*   Mental health care
*   User

> I couldn't work out what was happening.
> 
> I walked to the end of the rickety pier,
> 
> drew a bucket of cold water from the lake
> 
> and saw things I had not seen the day before

> though the weather seemed much the same:
> 
> Silvery fish darted under the surface,
> 
> water boatmen skedaddled on its skin,
> 
> ripples from a long gone motorboat

> lapped the large flat stone at the shore's edge
> 
> and the brown stems of giant lily pads curved
> 
> down into the murk. A cormorant flew
> 
> low and fast across the bay's wide mouth

> and out of sight, while the deep cells continued
> 
> their slow work of invisible rewiring.

## Footnotes

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