Hauswife's Hump-Day Haiku

Today's theme is ...

THE WIDENING GAP

Seeking: seismic help!
To stay this tectonic shift
To cover the cracks.

There's a reason why
"friction" sounds quite like "fiction"
And also: "fission."

I've felt this before.
I'm set for the aftershock.
I know my own faults.

It's not how I planned 
to first see the Grand Canyon,
shaken to the core.

Teasing the fracture,
a hairline becomes a gorge ...
this mangled mantle.

The heart weighs heavy:
too much for outmatched Richters;
too laden with crust.

But maybe there's hope
in changes of frequency,
in changes of heart

Life's savage tremors
can rip everything apart —
or shake it all right.

—J.A.G.

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