Landfall

that one English word in Philippine news reports about Guiuan where Magellan landed in 1521 where the Americans made their first beachhead in World War II in the swirl of Tagalog I don’t understand that word keeps floating to the surface landfall where floors shook where roofs blew off where concrete columns toppled where wind gusts reached 195 miles per hour where a 13-foot wall of water swept ashore landfall where the eye took a brief calm sightless look & moved on where a stone church was flattened landfall where “100 percent of all structures were damaged” where evacuation centers collapsed where 47,000 souls had been living land fall