Hugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press). Other bird poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Spork, Fence, South Dakota Review, Denver Quarterly, Ping-Pong, and others. He teaches writing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2016
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks
We call it risen it won’t rise. Dipping the stroke of the flywheel, the smoke.The runoff, seawater filtered through whales that is my shadow I brighten. I turn but I’m […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2016
Red-breasted Nuthatches
Its call is a tin trumpet. There are records of vagrants occurring as far south as the Gulf Coast and northern Mexico. Lightweight satellites orbit watching our small divisions, our […]