Chaos Theory, or, The Earthquake The whole house shuddered when she left. For weeks, she couldn’t be avoided: Echoes, aftershocks, the windows Trembling in their frames. Is there a point Where all movement stops? Or do the ripples Move back and forth Forever? Exactly one month After she walked out the door The floors cracked, walls fractured, Roof beams sagged and buckled. Next door, the neighbors didn’t even wake; If it hadn’t been for the news, They wouldn’t have believed him. Surveying the ruins, his neighbor smiled. Once in a lifetime, he said, And you were around to see it.
My notes: This is another very old one. Believe it or not, we do every once in a while get an earthquake in the midwest! To get a sense of them, though – the biggest and most recent one in Michigan was 4.2 on the Richter scale and happened back in 2015; they are not exactly what you think of when you hear “earthquake” in the news.
