Carolyn Gerrish
Carolyn Gerrish is a Sydney poet. She has published five collections of poetry. The most recent The View from the Moon (Island Press, 2011). She enjoys performing her work and is currently working on her sixth collection.
Disconnect
at my new apartment block (circa 1935)
in the suburb where everything has
happened & is set to begin again there’s
only three flats (plus mine) & no one watches
T.V. (reception unavailable in the building)
Bin Night is an urban mystery Sorry
she says from behind her chained door
I think it’s Tuesday then again it could
be Wednesday & how effective are your
phone and internet connections? a nest
of fraying wires above the unlockable
letterboxes in the lobby
where a scissored gesture from a jaded
prankster could render you perennially
incomunicado