wet - wet - wet

[* before - as "in the face of"]
Ice melts back into rain. The impermanence as well as imperfections of life in all its forms, concerned Taneda Santoka but guided him into acceptance.

getting soaked straw sandals, a hat that leaks a thin coat pretending to be Santoka, while I'm remembering living in a war-torn country almost completely deprived of food and heating. eating weeds in the falling rain my coat leaks dripping wet eating soggy potato peelings rainsoaked beans look at that cloud: the one that is making me so wet it'll blow over soon The weather was a constant source of anxiety, taxing his health and physique. "I beg while the blazing sun is filling my begging bowl my begging bowl filled to the brim with hailstones in the freezing wind"

My translation of some of his snippets, interspersed with some of my own haiku.



Written for a prompt at CarpeDiem