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# Wise Crack
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/wise-crack/
- Published: 2021-08-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: now there’s a story to be told if you can catch my drift across both oceans and plateaus you look, you’ll find a rift
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

now there’s a story to be told  
if you can catch my drift  
across both oceans and plateaus  
you look, you’ll find a rift

some places you can barely tell  
and others, ring of fire  
volcanoes, islands, seas that swell  
and magma their attire

but there’s a place where there’s a crack  
that’ll swallow a whole car  
beware, it’ll have you for a snack  
it’s open, wide ajar

don’t make the news, be careful looking  
when checking what the Earth is cooking

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**Author notes:** image from Pinterest https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784613-Fantasy-1029