its scary to think about how the earth is moving underneath
The movement of mountains
is charted in the paths
Of many pebbles,
marching cogs
in a monumental machine.
The Appalachians know
what haunts Mount Everest
and the Andes.
The Pacific Rim waits
for its turn to shuffle off
the burden of three oceans.
A quiet breeze
will carry the Rockies
to the other side of America,
one boulder
and a handful of desert sand
at a time.
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