The Bamboo / Mukunda Prayas
Why did you carve my name
on that bamboo amidst the bamboo bush
by etching with the tip of your sickle?
After some year
my father cut the same bamboo
and made a Tatno[1] out of it.
While standing holding the fodder for goats
the Tatno made up of bamboo
with my name etched on it, collapsed
as soon as this year’s monsoon was over.
My name was still there on the left out piece of bamboo
of which my mother built fire by putting it into Ageno[2].
My name also burnt away
together with that piece of bamboo,
and there ended the history of
my name you had carved on it.
I wished you to be one of the witnesses
of the time of ending of a history.
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[1] Tatno – bamboo made indigenous hay feeder for goats.
[2] Ageno- a fireplace
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Translated from Nepali by Suman Pokhrel
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Mukunda Prayas translated into English by Suman Pokhrel
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