BIR - Hugh Behm-Steinberg

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Summer 2007				Issue 2

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Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Became solid, what they hid. Before, among rocks,

there was what you could lift, cups tied to bindles,

enough wood you could cook with, smoke rising, the

cars wrecked and rusting, and someone

looks at you, and someone says

one of us should go, and because you had

decent shoes you were chosen, and as

you looked behind yourself you

watched them, all of them,

turn into salt.

Hugh Behm-Steinberg's poems have appeared in such places as Crowd, VeRT, Volt, Spork, Cue, Slope,
Aught, Swerve, Fence and Zeek. He teaches in the writing program at California College of the
Arts, and his first book, Shy Green Fields, is forthcoming from No Tell Books in Fall, 2007.