42opus
is an online magazine of the literary arts.
2 December 2004 | Vol. 4, No. 4
from Shy Green Fields
Being here. It's ok, to be here. The
grit that life has in it. It's mechanical
but I'm used to it. I feel the buzz inside
you, your body and laying beside it.
That enoughness. Someone could
point you in the right direction.
The scale is so much. Fields.
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.
Source:
http://42opus.com/v4n4/beinghere
