The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org              2009

 

 

 

 

 A Boulder

large as a bus, cracked exactly
in two halves resting
three feet apart.
The facing sides are sheared flat,
parallel, rough as weather
but clearly hewn
of each other.
I don’t know which glacier
left it just so,
with such immense, accidental
care, where it waits for me
each year to stand between,
and lay a palm
on either side.

 

Terry Adams