あざみあざやかなあさのあめあがりthistles bright and vivid — a morning after rain

雨あがりの朝、薊の紫が濡れて、ひときわあざやか。あ音ばかりを連ねた句のひびきが、洗われた朝の空気そのもの。声に出して読むと、雨あがりの光まで口の中に広がる。On a morning after rain, the purple of the thistles is wet and all the more vivid. The sound of the poem, strung with "a" after "a," is the very air of a rinsed morning. Read aloud, the light after rain spreads even inside the mouth.