Memorial Service

dark winter sky

mourners approach

in single file

 

memorial service —

work on the left

family on the right

 

slide show

a handsome young soldier

with the same nose

 

eulogy —

his only son 

tests the mic

 

ending

the moment of silence

pop of champagne

 

 

by Roberta Beary (Ireland/USA)

Frogpond, 38.1, 2015