A flood of 'Rain' poems
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Rain, depicted in the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle
“Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'‘
— Poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), a Massachusetts native