Infusion

Each afternoon, chef sandwiches a swim
between lunch and dinner service,
swaps deep stock for a turquoise tonic,
souses her frazzled self.

Her freestyle Sabatiers the water,
reheats her silver lane with flutter-kicks.
Head roll - breath - and on her lips she tastes
laksa, dashi, bouillabaisse.

Fiona Larkin

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