2 December 2004 | Vol. 4, No. 4
from Shy Green Fields
God is everywhere, cake is not,
which is why I like it, God says
and lifts his fork from the plate of
you. He makes it seem like charity.
I don't care what he thinks. I think
about the richness. I too take
enormous bites, here and here.
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.
