Michael Steiner
Michael Steiner
Michael Steiner grew up in Fresno and studied Creative Writing at Fresno State. He is particularly interested in the participation of written and spoken word in mystic traditions and the potential for art to access universal human experience. His poems have been published in hais: a literary journal and San Joaquin Review.
For additional work by Michael Steiner, please read his piece The Handsome Monkey King from the first issue of Behemoth Magazine and his work in issues of the publications Aftershock Zine Series.
Amphibian, Insomnia
There is a little green man
And he looks just like a frog
His head are very round
His eyes is very bald
When I tuck into bed
After turning out the light
He sits haunched in the corner
Watching through the night
I’ve asked him where he comes from
And I’ve asked him what’s his name
But he stares at me unblinking
With his face always the same
It’s awfully hard to drift away
Into night’s sweet oblivion
When I find myself to be playing host
To an anthropomorphic amphibian
Yet as the sun crests the horizon
He climbs out my windowsill
And though I don't know where he's off to
I close my eyes and wish him well