| Advice when drowning: don’t struggle, wasting precious air but go with the flow. Stay afloat, avoiding the undertow pulling you into currents of panic. Treat this as any common woe until you find yourself once more in calmer waters approaching, perhaps, a different shore. |
| Carole Farnan is a Belfast-based poet whose work has been published in several anthologies, The Honest Ulsterman and A New Ulster. |