Toppling

The storm packed winds of 100 to 140 miles per hour, toppling homes and causing widespread flooding.

One, that bore / the brave Orontes and his Lycian crew, / full in AEneas' sight a toppling wave o'erthrew. / Dashed from the tiller, down the pilot rolled. / Thrice round the billow whirled her, as she lay, / then whelmed below.

Scaffolding had to be erected around the old church tower to prevent it from toppling over.

And in “Central Park in the Dark” and her haunting response to “The Unanswered Question,” Sokolow evokes more small-town anomie in spare shifts of ranks, topplings and rises.