Past Fields by Steve Zimmerman
Menhir
I have laid down
this monument
where
like the giant’s quoit
it is seen
but never fathomed.
Only I can do that.
Only I can pluck through the rubble
for scrap and salvage
and come away with something
I can rub with the pads of my thumbs
and see for its worth in a piece
but not this piece.
This piece was never quite whole.
There is another
where this fragment
can become
a keystone.
About the author:
William Bonfiglio’s poetry has been awarded a Pearl Hogrefe Grant in Creative Writing Recognition Award, the Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Prize, and has appeared in Gulf Coast, New Letters, PRISM international, and elsewhere.
In the artist’s words:
Steve Zimmerman is a writer and photographer grown in Ohio, now rooted in the Pacific Northwest, finding outlets in literary and art journals such as the Evansville Review and the Bellingham Review, as well as gallery shows and the Tacoma Art Museum.