temblor

The earth shook today and made me feel it. I had never experienced such a thing and although my mother always warned me of the trembling of that which is most basic, our earth and everything on top of it, I was not prepared.

Collin slept through it, but I sat in bed, in the grey light of 5:50a.m and was rocked, side-to-side, while my ears focused on the rhythmic and disturbing sound of a neighboring and empty apartment building swaying to and fro.