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Youngest Daughter – 12/17/20

…ah, she has seen this before, not the painting itself…oh, not a painting, but a woodblock print, and…well, this is puzzling because she always thought this was a monumental work of art, large, imposing, dominating, really as formidable as the wave itself, rising over everything, and yet, here the print was so small, and nothing that would have caught her eye…except for the fact that her eyes had seen the wave before and, yes, it had seemed threatening, and ominous, and yet contained somehow, yes, but with this woodblock, even as small as it was, here it did seem threatening, for…look at the title, the first title, oh, under the wave, and in the painting, no, woodblock, two long boats with so many people huddling and frightened within them, no, three boats, so many frightened persons, one big wave, such a large wave just about to come upon them…wow…and Mt. Fuji in the distance covered with snow, but steady, secure, oh a place of safety, a place to run to, to escape to, if it was not so far away, but just in the distance…  And later, after returning to work, and then coming home, getting off at the Grove Street station in Jersey City, and as she walked up the steps, there it was on the wall, a huge wave looming over the little McDonald’s nestled securely between two larger buildings, and the wave going in the opposite way, but still threatening, the Statue of Liberty in the background, instead of Mt. Fuji, yes, that spot of stability, the lady upon the rock in the harbor, never saw this before…

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