It's Hard To Listen
It’s hard to listen,
hard to stop thinking
about what I want to say,
hard to stop searching
Elizabeth Steinglass grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. Her book Soccerverse: Poems about Soccer includes 22 poems about all aspects of the game. You can also find her work in many anthologies, such as in A World Full of Poems, edited by Sylvia Vardell, The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations, edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong, and The Poetry of US, edited by J. Patrick Lewis. She lives in Washington, DC, where she enjoys walking in the woods, writing poetry, and spending time with her family. For more information visit www.ElizabethSteinglass.com.
It’s hard to listen,
hard to stop thinking
about what I want to say,
hard to stop searching