Domino is a people poem, a reflection on the chain reactions we initiate and are part of every day. No one and nothing exists in isolation.

Domino – People Poem

I
 
the sun illuminates
 the moon pulling oceans
 flooding beach promenades
 drowning tourists
 who cast a heavy footprint
 in the sky
 boring a hole in the ozone
 making the sun
 illuminate the
 moon sucking oceans even more
 drowning shoreline towns
 flushing out tourists
 searching for sunshine
 covered in sunblock
 
II

 her words lance
 his side clothing children
 in want of shelter
 soon misbehaving 
 driving her to
 cut off his hands and
 her nose despite /
 her pinching for his side
 to raise the children
 into men and women
 who cradle
 not slash
 like her words 
 risen out of 
 shakey ground
 
III
 
his hands scaffold
 their bodies
 now fit to
 lend a shoulder
 to the crying
 who conquer and
 go on to 
 love and
 bolden
 the troubled