Rain so hard
Soaks the shoots
Stones the rocks
Pummels the peonies
Violates the violets

Then stops
Like a weary boxer
Spent
Leaving pools of damp

Poem 23

Woodcut by Kawanabe Kyōsai  (1831-1889) titled “White Heron in the Rain” from http://risdmuseum.org/art_design/objects/5115_white_heron_in_the_rain_uchu_sagi?context=9&type=galleries