Sandy McCord’s poems have appeared in The Chaffin, Cider Press Review, Plainsongs, Tiger’s Eye and elsewhere. Her chapbook Dragon Well appeared in 2010. These poems are inspired by Hokusai, The One Hundred Poets, edited by Peter Morse, which collects poems from the 13th century collection of Japanese poems called Hyakunin isshu and the prints that Hokusai, four centuries later, made, based on that collection, in his old age.

Image: Hokusai