Dudhkosi Riverbank in Memory | Anjana Rai

- Anjana Rai

 

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Unwinding the head-scarf

Stretched from each edge

With comrades by my side

In the jungle, grazing cattle

Yearning for a shower of chocolates

So we could eat to satisfaction.

 

 

Longing for those enigmatic chocolates,

The God would bestow us--resided above the clouds

Hoping to carry them home by evening,

So mother could relish their sweetness too.

 

After a prolonged wait

The throat deserted of thirst

With the sour stem of a fiddlehead

Could quench our thirst.

 

How could

The Dudhkosi

Slake our thirst

Yet, it taunted us, mocking our desires.

 

Now, at dusk descends upon the city

I ponder-- does the Dudhkosi[1]still run as before?

 

Perhaps the peers are stretching the Scarf

Hoping for chocolates from the sky.

 

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[1] A river in eastern Nepal, one of the seven tributaries of the biggest river of Nepal, Kosi.