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
Nocturne
only at night
things appear like this
daytime on the street
the normal business
of life now strangeness
can thrive the Victorian
gothic house very ecclesiastical
(but has never been a church)
more a horror film trope
beneath a diminished moon
bare branches capture
a deflated balloon (a foetus
with a monster's head &
a mermaid's tail) stranded
struggles to free itself in the gale