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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: SCHELLING, ANDREW Matches Found: 65 Schelling, Andrew Poet's Biography 65 poems available by this author AFTER KSHEMENDRA AND HAKIM BEY First Line: Poets should know with their Last Line: Set it all down, %sober and sage in the mind's notebook CHEYENNE STILL LIFE First Line: It is in general the unexplored that attracts us. Somewhere in the region of Last Line: Horizon blowing beneath %the locomotive belly- %bison snow CLAW MORAINE First Line: Into yak altitudes %blue pine on slopes at first rain Last Line: Wildens & the upward path %vanishing %clouds DREAM HAIBUN First Line: I'm with anne and althea exploring new york. We thread dark Last Line: Empty but for jet-black %calligraphy under its dome %the mosque of poetry DREAM HAIBUN First Line: The restaurant's classy %but run down, a bit seedy, the oak tables need waxing Last Line: Under one roof %sleeping with all of them- %bush clover, poker chips ELEUSINIAN HAIBUN First Line: Dr. Edwin james on pike's peak, taking notes on flowers Last Line: First documented ascent %to blue cloud summit %pike seven years dead FASCINATOR: INDIA NOTEBOOKS 1993, SELS First Line: 3 january bhubaneshvar %omfed milk products Last Line: Our chowkidar out in the garden, swinging his stick FOR A TRIBAL GIRL IN BANGKOK First Line: Your eyes earnest Last Line: Pulling a string of orchids %from her cunt HAIBUN First Line: Rock is naturalist scripture. The deeper you go the older the story Last Line: Evolution's basic %job-turning rock %to green growth HAIBUN First Line: Not far from the entrance to lowry airforce base stands Last Line: Trying the locked door %of an airplane hangar- %nobody home HAIBUN First Line: Do not despise this bit of broken bone Last Line: The grubby %typewritten note %says it still tastes salty HAIBUN First Line: No divine edicts, no one to issue them. Tiger salamander Last Line: Denver to oakland %reading lao tzu %this airplane a dark forest gulch HAIBUN First Line: Slopes, gypsum, slabs and beet pulp. Along the south platte Last Line: A bar called rocky flats HAIBUN First Line: Last night late over books, a snifter of whiskey Last Line: These slow-leaning schist %&granite mountains, %their learned heads HAIBUN First Line: In april we heard allen ginsberg had died. A group of students Last Line: Old masters depart %spring flowers return- %haze hangs blue by high peaks HAIBUN First Line: That nature is thinker. %that geological events are metaphysical notions Last Line: Bateson revealed the antidote %to human pride- %natural history HAIBUN First Line: January the weather treads on animal paws. Or has the resinous mind of a Last Line: Back-to the original act that made a cup cup, a tree tree HAIBUN First Line: Tender conjugal adventures are uta-makura, sites for poetry Last Line: I plant a kiss above your dark forest nipple HAIBUN (URSUS AMERICANUS) First Line: I came off bear peak, the quick descent through fern canyon Last Line: O black bear %in vimalakirti's ten-foot cell HAIBUN (WESTERN TANAGER) First Line: Pi-tic. A feathered yellow vowed %blurs past the fencepost Last Line: Your bards are wearing %wing-bands of %gold HAIBUN AT BUCKSKIN LAKE First Line: Floral perfume, nights of long love Last Line: You ask how they %toy with us mortals-? %get a field guide to the tundra HAIBUN BLACK EARTH, SELECTION Poem Text First Line: I was struck by the gem-like changeable greenish reflection Last Line: Suddenly departs on on magpie wings Subject(s): Ghosts HAIBUN BLACK EARTH, SELS. First Line: I was struck by the gem-like changeable greenish reflection Last Line: A mine called buckskin. %a town called river bend. %a bar called rocky flats Subject(s): Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) HAIBUN FOR CHARLES BERNSTEIN First Line: He swings into the gay hotel lobby, emerald pins and ruby tieclip making sparks Last Line: Four pages %flimflam & moonshine- %we're deep in the american psyche HAIBUN GAZETTEER First Line: In a pocket notebook, quick directions %scrawled down in haste Last Line: These too are unrhymed poetry' HAIBUN JOURNAL ENTRIES First Line: 13 september 1995 %the eight wolf pups near yellowstone Last Line: All, all return %to this hand eye fur webbing- %it settles like mist HAIBUN MURASAKI First Line: Murasaki on market street, tu fu in hop alley with a torch. Has no one Last Line: I give mineral credence to %sexual hunger HAIBUN SHADOW CANYON First Line: A traveler who studies %with cold disinterested eye and a heart Last Line: Not far over the %edge from agony- %releasing her fragrance HAIKU First Line: Dusk. %the wolf survey's coming Last Line: Express mail I STOPT IN TO WATCH THE YANKEES First Line: I stopt in to watch the yankees at rocky flats lounge, a wind-scraped Last Line: Just asking, where can we put it? INSTRUCTIONS FOR TEA First Line: Bring a kettle of cold fresh water to boil. Scald teapot Last Line: The tea drinker should consider it with care through the years INVOLVING THE FOREST First Line: Sing %radial whim clip %regarding the hardwoods Last Line: Involving the forest %even the word forest LITTLE SONGS OF LOVE & WINE First Line: On a couch fashioned from %myrtle and lotus leaf Last Line: They've an ineradicable %impress to their %souls NATURE IS RED (DYE-STUFF FROM A WORM) First Line: Out of the store %old deer lady %carrying a sack of mushrooms Last Line: Wake waken velocity feather %bivouac vigil %vigor NORTH FOREST HAIBUN First Line: Don't be a weasel %I've got a husband %at home Last Line: It'll be hell %with the old man NOTE ON ISHA UPANISHAD First Line: Inida's one hundred and eight upanishads are a huge compendium of archaic Last Line: Nearly three thousand years after the old yogins assembled it NOTE ON THE POETRY OF OLD INDIA First Line: India's classical poetry begins around the second century c.E. When hala, a Last Line: Books were destroyed and the best manuscripts went into hiding, some in the %monasteries of tibet NOTE ON THE ROAD TO OCOSINGO First Line: In august 1995, one year and a half after the january military offensive Last Line: Province. As we wandered mexico (basho trailing noiselessly behind), I heard the %place names echo NOTES AND SCRAPS: 18:11:92 First Line: Grappa in a cheap slender glass Last Line: She rains down her cum ON THE WALL First Line: No way to just look Last Line: There they all are %on the wall PHILIP WHALEN First Line: Long after our current apocalypse ended Last Line: There existed a few ruined libraries, one or two books POEMS FROM THE SANSKRIT First Line: Having silenced the silver %chains at my ankles Last Line: Who will one day be born %with my sort of heart POEMS FROM THE SATTASI First Line: It was like %touching the tenderest %dew-covered petals Last Line: In the trees the hunter %seeing his own girl %lets the bow drop RAVEN HAIBUN Poem Text First Line: Anglo-saxen it comes hraefn Subject(s): Ravens RAVEN HAIBUN First Line: Anglo-saxen it comes hraefn Last Line: Going to be another %judgment day Subject(s): Ravens RIPARIAN First Line: Basho dogs us here %albeit 'pets %not aloud' Last Line: I'm just going to walk over to it ROUNDHOUSE AT COLMA First Line: The roundhouse at colma was shut in '34. Last train out took up the rails Last Line: Sells ice cream- %an acre of retreads covers the indian village RUN MY HAND UNDER First Line: In a redwood grove, on a low hill facing east, I bent over a shovel and buried Last Line: Yet it's heaped on the bed. Next to a window. Imagine the aftermath. Hipbone %on hip SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS: 11 AUGUST AFTERNOON. NISSAN'S BACK SEAT First Line: Last night dinner when we got in late, the long drive up from palenque. Twisty Last Line: Nearly insoluble puzzle to which love is the answer %companionable love SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS: 11 AUGUST OCOSINGO First Line: Small church at the downhill & east end of the square, tucked almost insignifi- Last Line: Banners- %six pesos each SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS: 5 AUGUST 8 P.M. First Line: Anne & I take the road to tenejapa around sunset. Dramatic little forested Last Line: Everyone's a pistolero SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS: 8 AUGUST NA-BOLOM INSTITUTE LIBRARY First Line: Flames crackle in the convent's old fireplace Last Line: Til he was yanked back to spain SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS: AUG. 5 MIDNIGHT First Line: And the spaniards were allowed to choose, among one hundred and fifty Last Line: Dark forest wind has devoured it %rain & dark wind SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS: AUGUST 4 First Line: Entered the city named for 16th century priest bartolme de las casas Last Line: Pitch-pine twigs crackle %the roof lets in rain SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS: EVERGREEN CLOUD FOREST SAN CRISTOBAL First Line: Volcanic peak & vague boulders heave free from the tangle Last Line: What do we call it? %cloud evergreen scrub SKULL CRUSTED WITH TURQUOISE MOSAIC CHIPS Last Line: Through the black mask a %row of broken teeth SPRING SESSHIN IN THE BOWERY First Line: Thirteen of us trail through the bowery behind tetsugen sensei. He's scouring Last Line: The bodhisattva moves through all worlds' STORM FURROWS First Line: No longer Last Line: Can if you %find her TOOTH DREAM AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTE First Line: Standing at the door to naropa's performing arts auditorium, the poet e in a Last Line: Inside the mouth a nest of cool stones TRANSLATION First Line: And dream'd my friend l, her hair feathered raven Last Line: To remove the veil %to have the veil on TUNDRA POETICS First Line: But you could lean over and drink a chill wind coming through the divide. The Last Line: Coming up from the ice with a cup of tea TYGER TYGER First Line: The small outfit of contemporary techno-wizards who've taken up digs Last Line: & frame old symmetries %new poems VIENNA DREAM First Line: I meet the poet allen ginsberg at a vienna cafe. He has hidden himself off Last Line: Warn me about something WHY INDIA First Line: That an old karmic link still connects us Last Line: That these very bones of mine are my ornaments WRITING IN DARKNESS First Line: I was jotting in a notebook %trees full of buzzards Last Line: Let's call it %writing in darkness |
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