An early cricket chirps,
then pauses;
the dying lamp gutters
then flares again.
Outside my window
I know it is raining—
the leaves of the banana
first know its drumming.
Bai JuYi [Po Chü-i] (772 - 846) China
Translated by David Lunde
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