Everyone sat around
talking the end of the world.
​
 
Did you read that
New Yorker article?
they asked.
​
 
The world is bigger
      I thought
than the PacificNorthWest
bigger than here
                             to Japan.

 
Once the world quaked
when someone said
        You’re just like your mother.
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Now I watch
my father's hands tremble.

 
Swell after swell, 
the world isn't swallowed.