Sunshine in the Cemetery

                                                                      Dark Matter is like the space                                                                                       between people                                                                                        -Tracy Smith "Life on Mars" 

This month is named for Mars, that bloodthristy Roman God of War and eponymous red planet, and this post is a tribute to Tracy Smith's "Life on Mars" the Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry in 2012.  Frank Tassone at dVerse, the Poet's Pub, has suggested we write a haibun in the spirit of Smith's extended elergy for her late father. 

She who taught me to set a table
make my bed and say my prayers
with no complaint waits for spring—
    the boys of summer—

but another sore appeared on her ankle
and she wonders aloud
What will become of me?
I’m still a child while she is here
when she is gone what will become of me?

Splash of blackwing in the tree

Watchful crow remembers thee

Red tulips match your dress and his bow tie

Easter finery cemetery grass
soft and matted underfoot
Why not believe as Camus did
That two can become reunited as one

Vase of daffodils

Last a week when brought inside

Sunshine in a jar

The haibun form consists of one or two paragraphs of prose that evoke an experience followed by a haiku, nature based, that complements the prose.

Thanks Frank for the evocative prompt.