This Mental Eclipse

In life

I am the spider 

Kung Fu

I am the snake

In dreams 

I am the owl

In love

I am with you

Foreordained by the powerful insight of a gibbering madman who, cast upon the seas of the wide world in tumultuous splendor, proceeds to find a balance on such strange surfaces as have never before been mastered. The will to dream and the dare to hope function equally as a lever to move the heavens and the earths in a cosmic blend of poetic nonsense, this mental eclipse, having said so returns to eternal slumber beneath the rolling waves. 

Moby-Dick

But not only is the sea such a foe to man who is an alien to it, but it is also a fiend to its own off-spring; worse than the persian host who murdered his own guests; sparing not the creatures which itself hath spawned. Like a savage tigress that tossing in the jungle overlays her own cubs, so the sea dashes even the mightiest whales against the rocks, and leaves them there side by side with the split wrecks of ships. No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.

-Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick" 1851

Vampire hunter

Wet dog Standing dog

Pho

Sushi

Haiku 8

A blossom falls down

From the branch that is brittle

And lands without sound

Pals