Kimiko Hahn

Found Lines for a Ghazal on Water

her family avoids any contact with the water.

Her youngest son has scabs on his arms, legs and chest where the bathwater

enforcement of water

strengthening water

untreated human waste has flowed into rivers and washed onto beaches. Drinking water

Jennifer knows not to drink the tap water

The liquid in those lagoons and shafts can flow through cracks in the earth into water

decade ago, awful smells began coming from local taps. The water

put their house on the market, but because of the water

reinvigorate the drinking water

cavities until the family stopped using tap water.

violated water


Notes: All lines are quotes from “Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering,” Charles Duhigg, The New York Times, 9/13/09. “Found Lines for a Ghazal on Water” is reprinted from The Ghost Forest (WWN 2024)

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