2 December 2004 | Vol. 4, No. 4
from Shy Green Fields
A duet built around the word help. As I am
a man, I cannot talk without my body, my
body keeps leaning into you. I cannot say I
understand the problems of bodies, of translating
your experience into my own. I know the joys
that unbutton you, the bodilyness of what
happens, of surrendering ourselves into ourselves.
About the author:
Hugh Steinberg lives in Berkeley, where he teaches in the graduate writing program at California College of the Arts. He is the editor of Freehand, a new journal devoted to handwritten work. Other poems from Shy Green Fields can be found at (or are forthcoming from) No Tell Motel, Fence, Boston Review, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, 5_Trope, Slope, and Forklift, Ohio.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Hugh Steinberg at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 4, No. 4, where "from Shy Green Fields" ran on December 2, 2004. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
