The New Opium (Haibun)

The poppy fields of West India and Burma provided England fodder for opium dens in China. The Qing emperor lost the war to keep it out and gave Britain a nearly empty scrabbly island in the South China Sea as compensation. When the sun waves goodbye for the year, winds trap air in the north cradle of that island where millions live in a tiny crescent lodged between the harbour and mountains behind. It appears as if all the opium smoke in China has come to repose there with the haute couture of ex pats where nothing happens without popping a cork.

Victoria Peak
reveals Hong Kong smog obscured
drowning in white wine.

NOTE: Haibun is a form poetry comprising of a prose travel piece followed by a related haiku. The travel piece is restricted similarly to the haiku: the invisible observer, reflective of nature and seasonally set, sensual and with a change-up, not so much of an "aha" as the haiku, but a change of direction giving greater reflection or perspective.
The haiku provides a new meaning to the prose piece. it might be referred to as the saucer where the prose is the teacup which settles into place.