For Theodor Adorno

In Pakistan, new floods leave displaced families in limbo

BADIN DISTRICT, SINDH, Pakistan, 15 September 2011 – Mubarak, 37, and his son Rajab, 10, wade through the dirty flood waters up to their waist. They are attempting to rescue something from the murky depths, but from a distance it is not clear what it is. As they get closer and the water shallower, a heavy wooden chest comes into view.

 

(in compound round the Black Hull)

All is hushed behind the low barricade.  A few bronze tripods carry the flame which looses the light to be lost in the tarred side of the great hull, leaned over to one side, propped up with scooped sand.