Jennifer knows not to drink the tap water In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact with the water. Her youngest son has scabs on his arms, legs and chest where the bathwater violated water enforcement of water strengthening water untreated human waste has flowed into rivers and washed onto beaches. Drinking water decade ago, awful smells began coming from local taps. The water The liquid in those lagoons and shafts can flow through cracks in the earth into water cavities until the family stopped using tap water. put their house on the market, but because of the water reinvigorate the drinking water Kimiko Hahn teaches in the MFA Program, Queens College-CUNY. Her last two collections of poems, Toxic Flora and Brain Fever (W.W. Norton), were triggered by science articles. “Second Lines for a Ghazal” is composed of lines taken from a 2009 New York Times article, “Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering,” by Charles Duhigg.
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