Bio
Carolyn Gerrish is a Sydney poet. Her work has been published widely in Australia and overseas. She has worked as a creative writing teacher in the community. She enjoys performing her work. Her latest, (sixth) collection 'Collision with the Shadow' was published last year by Ginninderra Press.
Carolyn Gerrish
Above It All
if you can drown in the idea of flight
know that certainty is a fickle concept
engage instead with whimsy & the sheer relief
of not having to frown over sudoku koans or
syllogisms just the shrieking delight of the
slippery slide thrilling vertigo of the swings
the possibility pot plants could be high-flyers
over the bowling green perhaps the woman
jogging on the oval might have gnomes
stirring beneath her mushroom hat but regrettably
the morning dirigible is now absent but you
can still soar not walk to the paradise gardens
some say Robert Schumann always lived in
his imagination such a sustained swoon could
lurch towards catastrophe for now just fly
hence away all Is well