A micro-anthology of poems about rain.

1. Rain, Francis Ponge, 'a concert without monotony, and not without a certain delicacy.'

2. The Frog, Francis Ponge, 'the rain, in delicate aglets, rebounds on the wet fields'

3. It rained last night, Isabella Gardner, 'the air is wild/with the scents of thyme and fern'

4. Fall Rain, Robert Bly, 'Now the sound of the geese is heard.'

5. A Rain of Rites, Jayanta Mahapatra, 'the rain I have known and traded all this life/Is thrown like kelp on the beach.'

6. Rain the Rememberer, Carol Oles, 'Rain retells every sad story/you thought you could bury.'

7. Postcards to the Rain God (11), Sean O'Brien, 'You sit in your shed in the rain. In its peppercorn racket...'