The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Hokusai
Nine Haikus
A perfect blue curve
the wave’s claws ready to ponce
the skillful artist
The nature of fear
a dangerous rogue blue wave
against a mountain
In this wide ocean
fear is not metaphor but
blue liquidity
The ocean crucial
both source of food and of death
is this what we are?
And what we are is
coded in our DNA
both water and fear
Fishermen provide
sustenance and metaphor
ample fish and myth
A monstrous beauty
the indifferent face of death
the sound and fury
What is beautiful
in its vast intensity
can be as deadly
The source of the swell
far out in the deep ocean
a storm, wind, a wave
The Discerning Woman's Gallery of Verse 