Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day twenty-five

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:

he leaves in an ambulance -

the chrysanthemum buds

closed tight

Third Place, Katikati Haiku Contest 2010
Published in Katikati Advertiser (Wednesday, June 16, 2010)