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Jan/Feb 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Black-bellied Whistling Ducks

By Hugh Behm-Steinberg

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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.

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