Stone Age / Shubhalaxmi Lamsal

I live the Stone Age

and seek the fire for living

by striking the pair of palaeoliths.

I get cactus to bloom, by carving my existence

right on stone,

and, I die a multiple times.

Making a fragile shed for shelter,

decorating its drip edges and gutters with desires;

I get trickling in the form of possession

I get seeping in the shape of mourning.

Wearing a mask of modernity

I, the human being,

live the stone age within me;

till date, I live carrying

the thinking, Paleolithic.

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(Translated from Nepali by Suman Pokhrel)

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Shubhalaxmi Lamsal translated into English by Suman Pokhrel

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This translation was published on Nepali Kalasahitya Dot Com and Asian Signature earlier.

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