In the wake  of super typhoon Haiyan ...

post sea surge 
her son clutches a photo 
of grandpa 

Haiku 111509

taps*
as she lays her rose
a sigh





*A tune performed with a bugle to signal lights-out; also performed in military funerals
Edited; original first posted in The Four Seasons of Haiku











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