this cold night
even geckos are fleeing
powerful rain




大雨や守宮も逃げる寒い夜
おおあめ や　やもり も にげる　さむい よる



Usually there are geckos on my window at night. They like to hunt the bugs that are drawn by the light from my office. There was a big storm tonight, and they didn’t come.

I wanted to write a good haiku about this, but Michiko beat me to it. Mine didn’t sound nearly as poetic.


– Chay Schiller
– Japanese by Nakamura Michiko