Haiku for Onizuka (2007)

On January 28 1986 the Challenger Mission 51dash L set out to observe Halleys Comet from space but exploded a minute into the launch killing everyone on board A monument to Challenger astronaut Ellison J Onizuka stands in Los Angeles Little Tokyo from which I made a graphite rubbing of the text onto a sheet of plain paper and noticed it was nearly a perfect haiku Then re filmed to emphasize poetic structure disaster duration