Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free verse. Try writing your own free verse poem. It doesn't have to rhyme or use a structure ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems ... matters in a poem, capturing the most elusive ...

His relative isolation from the bleakly serious scholarly poetry scene of postwar Japan likely helped him take his free-verse approach ... perhaps meant to write a poem about that experience ...