#this is my unknown/nth

[lena-oleanderson]

poems that didn't make it into Side Wounds and why series, part 1: Precious Wound

i've recently put out my first poetry collection Side Wounds (you can read it here for free) and in honour of that, here's some poems that didn't make the cut. some of these are poems i specifically wrote for side wounds, others are old faves - this is the latter

so why wouldn't a poem quite literally titled precious wound end up in Side Wounds the poetry collection?? well, this poem is about a friendship that simply needed to end and not because either party died. in the collection, the Wound ended up being my recurring metaphor for grief, and having this poem in there would've been confusing. second to that, there isn't really any section of the collection that this poem would've fit into. part I is about grief, both the immediate personal reality of it, and the way it shapes my relationships with other people. part II is loosely defined as medical school antics (and by that i mean overworking and excessive medical imagery). part III is about survival and hope and healing and love and (healthy) friendships and other good reasons to live. part IV is about queerness; my complicated relationship with god being an overarching theme throughout the whole collection. the sections bleed into each other, of course, but regardless, there isn't a place for this poem in any of them. sometimes a person doesn't fit into your life like pain doesn't fit into your heart and a poem doesn't fit into your poetry collection - and that's just that

[hoziercriespower]

Hozier making Unknown / Nth

❝ Where you were held frozen like an angel to me. ❞

[galacticfo-ol]

unknown/nth // shrike

[somequicknewmusic]

What you're given, what you live in / Darling, it finds a way to live in you.

[youwerelikeanangel]

a collection of some lyrics from unreal unearth that have a particularly intense chokehold on me

And though I burn how could I fall? / When I am lifted by every word you say to me I, Carrion (Icarian)

But feel at home, hearing a music that few still understand/ A butchered tongue still singing here above the ground Butchered Tongue

Let all time slow, let all light go/ I don't need to know where we begin and end/ I'd still know you, not being shown you/ I only need the working of my hands De Selby (Part 2)

One bright morning goes so easy/ Darkness always finds you either way/ It creeps into the corners as the moment fades First Light

I will not be great, but I'm grateful to get through/ The feeling came late, I'm still glad I met you Abstract (Psychopomp)

I would not change it each time/ Heaven is not fit to house a love/ Like you and I Francesca

At last, when all of the world is asleep/ You take in the blackness of air/ The likes of a darkness so deep/ That God at the start couldn't bear De Selby (Part 1)

These days I think I owe my life/ To flowers that were left here by my mother/ Ain't that like them, gifting life to you again/ This life lived mostly underground/ Unknowing either sight nor sound/ Til reaching up for sunlight just to be ripped out by the stem First Time

Do you know I could break beneath the weight?/ Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you Unknown / Nth

So someone with your eyes might come in time/ To hold me like water/ Or Christ, hold me like a knife Who We Are

[nikki-rook]

Hozier's "Unknown/Nth" | Aziraphale's Version | Crowley's version

[unreal-unearthing]

when hozier said "it ain't the being alone, it ain't the empty home... it's more the being unknown, so much of the living is the being unknown" and noah kahan said "now I know your name but not who you are" and mitski said "i need somebody to remember my name after all that I can do for them is done"

Loving is to be known and one of the tragedies of heartbreak is the being unknown of becoming a stranger to someone who used to know everything about you, and the inverse where they become a stranger to you as well.

[inoreuct]

i want to be loved— softly.

i want to be loved when i am too tired to maintain my usual personality. i want to be loved when i have none of my charm, when i'm quiet and i've put down my smile. i want to drop my weight into skin-warmed sheets, press my face into a pillow that is not mine and know that i am still wanted even when i have nothing to give. i want low lights and quiet voices. i want a love that feels easy as breathing, hot chocolate and tea, wrapped in the duvet with a thunderstorm outside. i want to be seen at my worst and still be kissed like i look beautiful. i want comfort and safety and a place to rest my head. i want to trust someone enough to be able to let them put me back together when i fall apart. i want to be shown that i am worth the effort of being gentle, of being careful. i want love that is a home, a refuge, a respite, because love is steady and love is kind. love is the place where you hide when everything is too much. love is where you know you're safe, where nothing can hurt you, and love is relief. love is where, at the end of the day, you take down your hair and let your shoulders drop because there is nobody to pretend for. love is gentle. love is soft. love is lovely and if it isn't lovely— then it isn't love.

[itseivwhore]

Is Hozier, who wrongly published a video of himself with the handsome Squidward filter on his stories on Instagram and afterwards published a written apology, the same man who wrote: "Do you know I could break beneath the weight of the goodness, love, that I still carry for you" and "Heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I" and "If there was anyone to ever get through life with their heart still intact, they didn't do it right" and "How can somethin' be so much heavier but so much less than what it seems?" And "But you spoke some quick new music that went so far to soothe this soul as it was and ever shall be unearth without a name" ?

Is it the SAME MAN?

[strongintherealgay]

It wasn't until "Unknown / Nth" that I realized how often many of us talk about the mortifying ordeal of being known, but not being known? That's truly horrendous.

[gayofthefae]

Mike and Will - Unknown / Nth by Hozier, Will POV

@your-local-bi-guy @imatotallynormalteengirlok @throne-of-crows @best-thing-at-this-party

[hoziercriespower]

Hozier perfoming Unknown / Nth at Greenwood Village

❝ Unknown on the main stage. ❞

🎥 lizpung on tiktok

[dumbandpoetical]

better love // unknown nth

[dramaticmotionblur]

i know it’s unlikely BUT IMAGINE they play Unknown / Nth in good omens s3 and it’s during a scene where aziraphale is going back to/already with crowley KDHSKSHSKDJJS

[aoarcturus]

here’s a random little sketch i did the other day of hozier and liked so :)

[dragestil]

“unknown / nth” by hozier, performed live at dublin’s marlay park during the unreal unearth tour, 5 july 2024