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Askold Skalsky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Where I first encountered Hokusai\u2019s wave Originally from Ukraine, ASKOLD SKALSKY<\/strong> is a retired college professor living in Frederick, Maryland, with three cats and many books, and who annually takes at least one trip to his beloved South Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Askold Skalsky Where I first encountered Hokusai\u2019s wave on the South Jersey shore\u2014first it threw me down, then twisted me around, then pushed me headfirst through the surf and washed me up, scraping my belly and filling sand into my trunks galore. That was … Continue reading
on the South Jersey shore\u2014first it threw me down,
then twisted me around, then pushed me headfirst
through the surf and washed me up, scraping my belly
and filling sand into my trunks galore. That was my surf-
surrendered self. How good it was not to resist the walls
of sea, unstem the waves crashing over me like a cliff
of transparent jade, and I bobbing like a fusillade
of stone, like corks of light, not knowing up or down,
thrashing around in a wet bowl through the silt of stars
with their wedges of wet light, green fire and ice
in submerged reservoirs of avalanchine bright,
the smooth and water-weedy skins of briny meteors
in my young, and as yet innocent, receptive pores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n
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