Orchid Tierney
$5
it’s amazing how fires unfurl strange weathers brown husks carve
hills tacky with ash unseasonal fires every season
are a kind bomb arson is endless repetition in a hot system
feedback notations craven fires like tourists
grousing trees and lichen with fiery indifference another network
of dirty looks smoldering and smoke trees transfer riches
to seedlings or that stump there on the hill
defines what health care is a flashfire sprouts too soon
charred roots enjoy such strange world endings
corpse grey dirt new urfs to grow in
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
May 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Orchid Tierney is a poet and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her collections include this abattoir is a college (Calamari Archive, 2025) and a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System 2019). She is the author of several chapbooks including looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (Essay Press, 2023), my beatrice (Ottawa: above/ground, 2020), ocean plastic (BlazeVOX, 2019), and blue doors (Belladonna* Press, 2018). Tierney is the coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics, and her scholarship has appeared in SubStance, Jacket2, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry, Teaching the Literature of Climate Change, and The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics Since 1900. She is a senior editor at The Kenyon Review.
This is Tierney’s second above/ground press title, after my beatrice (2020).
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