rain falling quietly—
I let the maples
be my overcoatthinking about Abutsu
while my mother picks flowers
for father's gravewinter comes,
white flowers blooming
on my window
Family Portrait
Bread Pudding and Other Memories: A Boyhood on the Farm
Spring Rain Winter Snow
Jugo Meets a Poet
Answers Instead: A Life in Haiku
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond (Contemporary Sports Issues)
Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
The 1960s: American Popular Culture Through History
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
Sitting Bull: A Biography
Legends of American Indian Resistance
Baseball in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching the National Pastime
Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction
The Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne
Approaches to Teaching Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
Abandoned farmhouse: And other haiku
The Furrow's Edge
Anniversary Haiku
Ways of Looking: Poems of the Farm
Rain Falling Quietly
Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems
The Breaking of Glass Horses and Other Poems
Family Portrait
My Struggling Soil
How Sky Holds the Sun
A Fine, Safe Journey: Poems about Haying and Other Matters
To Sadie at 18 Months and Other Poems
Unbeaten Man
Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons Learned from Maine's Greatest Generation
Edward Rielly wrote this meditative book (Wind Chimes Minibook, 1985) partly in thrall to Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi, which he quotes and to which his poems respond.
--The Haiku Foundation
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rain falling quietly—
I let the maples
be my overcoatthinking about Abutsu
while my mother picks flowers
for father's gravewinter comes,
white flowers blooming
on my window