War Haiku.

grey sky

World War II - Germany

Dresden - February 13-14, 1945

Charred corpses after the bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II

Dresden fire-bombing --
a tiny hand among piled bodies
reaching out
slave laborers collected corpses,
RAF officers puffed on cigars

Joachim Seckel
USA