depression – Catty Koala

Grim

By Denise Carruthers / 25th January, 2019

At first, my clock was slow. Its tick afar, its tock a lil further. Then time stood still. A voice from long ago. The devil, daemon, the hot one from…

Look

By Denise Carruthers / 16th December, 2018

Sometimes that twinkle in her eye is not a thing of stars nor hint of dreams but an imminence of teardrops, a close call to sorrow. Mayhap, long held her…

Make Me Some Madness

By Denise Carruthers / 28th July, 2018

It was thru madness that she learned And she learned a lot Double minded Do as I say Not as I do From the belt to the wooden spoon Early…

Self contained

By Denise Carruthers / 20th June, 2018

It’s a blue bottle baby & a piece of the sea. It’s the sting in the tail one never forgets. Washed up abandon, at its lowest ebb. Sorrow preserved long…

Thank you

By Denise Carruthers / 17th June, 2018

It happened that I found a friend, when a friend was exactly what I needed. This is dedicated to him; Found me a shelter a standing rock & he’s the…

Beyond the Pale

By Denise Carruthers / 4th June, 2018

…and then the milk, you spilled, on purpose in my name. To make me cry while you shed sneers How black looks on your kettle. How you became the harder…

Island

By Denise Carruthers / 31st May, 2018

Fey feelings, tendrils of memory, twitches in time. An island risen from the ocean. Wherefore no life, no mountain & no tree. They summoned her & in the echoes of…

Gathering mourn

By Denise Carruthers / 17th May, 2018

Early eerie fog Gathering pace tic tic Still life painted far from sleep Dark without How quiet sounds interminable Metronome of murmured silence tic tic Grief is her companion, Ghosts…

Fever

By Denise Carruthers / 11th May, 2018

Night comes seeking cold, Lays over me, taking my breath. I wake in the River and my dreams have drowned.

writing woes

By Denise Carruthers / 9th May, 2018

I’m walking down that road, the rocky one, sure that I will fall and afraid that I was never on the road at all. But merely, a bystander a refugee…

Black Cat

By Denise Carruthers / 4th May, 2018

#UnspokenFears Mad indeed would I be to expect belief and yet you see me here before you bound by such insanity. Pussy lives below but cries at the door. To…

broken highway

By Denise Carruthers / 3rd May, 2018

Still & breathless against the tree. By the shiver of the leaves she knew. Dark had followed. Her sighs send silent prayer. For yellow bird who sang the sun. Who…

The loneliest whale

By Denise Carruthers / 30th April, 2018

30 #NaPoWriMo 52 on a sea of sound waves High & apart A mourn for love To ride the seas To be my one & only I’m calling since the…

I heard you the first time

By Denise Carruthers / 23rd April, 2018

23 #NaPoWriMo Revving engines Sky plane soar Horns object to chicken play Blinds twitch n silent sight Balls thud, Thud, thud Range o bells Ding, dong door Cacophony of senses…

Twin Depressions

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2018

17 #NaPoWriMo The Great Depression Newly married Grandparents rented out rooms Tenant wife miscarried. Perfect yet dead Blue twins spent overnight in the bath. At dawn they were packed into…

All the little things

By Denise Carruthers / 11th April, 2018

10 #NaPoWriMo It’s raining inside her head thoughts trickling beneath the shower underneath a stormy sky drowning by precipitation suddenly she starts to cry the milk has spilled begun to…

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