For Frank Tassone’s haikai prompt Easter lily which has a special symbolic significance if you’re Irish. Like all symbols, it has its detractors, but they grow in all the gardens in Bordeaux and I like them. We left ours behind when we moved because one of our cats is buried under them.

Lile na Cásca

beautiful symbol of death

for ideals

lost now perhaps in the

scrimmage but pure once