Railing at December

An unreliable narrator talks of love lost and grief, in the midst of depression.

Railing at December is a collection of poems charting a slice through depression and grief after the accidental end of a marriage.

"No-one wants to be nursemaid
To a disintegrating spouse."
A story of a relationship lost, and a husband failing to deal with the loss, his part in the accidents that ended it, and hollowed out by there being no hope of making things right. His initial trite expressions of lovelorn self-pity, and the simplistic narrative he's built up - trying to justify both their actions in sophomoric appeal to the lost past - become shot through with inconvenient truths about their relationship and its fall, as the reality of loss and depression erode the fa