Some poems that were cut from the DIZZYING PATTERNS chapbook. I made an entirely new collection out of these b-sides titled UNRELATED CONDITIONS. You can download a free PDF of all 70 poems from my home page. Hope you enjoy them!
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PLINTH
While the weeks’ water ballooned
the gap and down
the efface with no arms and anywhere else,
I lost you
walking through the wheat. We both
had our eyes kind of down
or away.
We were both sort of
waiting
to be plucked from
there.
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UNIDENTIFIED CRITTER
With your light* in its eye**
and feeding on whatever the moon’s
version of photosynthesis
*All the gold of your living room
with the sliding glass
**A round sack for stealing
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DELICADO
There’s a meaning inside
to reveal if you pull hard enough
but too-hard’s line is easier
to cross and may unravel it all
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LAND!
At once, clear of fog and sailing to a love that can draw
my spinning compass
umbilically by its needle, like for jumping the battery
or kicking the start
or pumping fluids life-affirmingly in
It’s here
Where I’m dry and sure of foot
beside a very
cute lady tying spring lines
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WHO’S KNOCKING ON THE WALL?
Coming at me from the angles you do you
might as well pound concrete
I open
on a side you’ll never know
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Copyright 2025 Sean Tierney
SEAN TIERNEY 