No More Fairy Tales, XXXVII
leafless trees rub
against the smoggy sunrise
smell of the wind
FYI: BBC News, Nov.3: Schools close in Lahore as pollution hits record level
Unprecedented air pollution in the Pakistani city of Lahore has forced authorities to close all primary schools for a week.
From Monday, 50% of office workers will also work from home, as part of a "green lockdown" plan. Other measures include bans on engine-powered rickshaws and vendors that barbecue without filters...
Raja Jehangir Anwar, a senior environment official, said the "biggest headache" causing the smog was the practice of burning crop waste, known as stubble, across the Indian border.
Aurangzeb said the fumes were “being carried by strong winds into Pakistan”.
And this haiku could be read as a sequel to its preceding entry:
No More Fairy Tales, XXXVI
New Delhi draped
in layers of toxic haze
this sense of dread
as October rolls around
chokingly dark... and darker
FYI: New Delhi started the week with a PM 2.5 concentration nearly 80 times the World Health Organization’s recommended limit, according to Swiss air quality company IQAir (2023 survey)
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CXXII: "bombed schools"
a drift of olive leaves ...
my Gazan friend's kin living
in various bombed schools
FYI: This haiku is a sequel to the following:
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CXIX: "olive harvest in the West Bank"
the sun glints
on a settler's M-16 ...
olive harvest
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