By Pushkar Lohani
When the frozen youth
pays a squinted look, and giggles with teeth exposed
the dame blushes in coyness
and experiences an untold ecstasy.
She cuddles, jests and flirts
in the tender caress of the sun
numbed by his love and gentle touch,
she rolls over in amorous fits,
and the frozen body heats up
oblivious of everything she is!
Later, when the sun winds up its play,
and his heat comes scorching,
she searches for him,
like an addict’s search for his drug;
comes round,
and startles; tears rolling down her eyes.
[Pushkar Lohani (b. 1939) is a poet, storywriter and novelist. His distinguished fame in Nepali literature lies in his treatment of sex as a literary subject. Besides these genres, he also writes haiku, choka and tanka. His Chahakdar Mentol ra Pilpile Laltin, Bhatta – Motiram Bhatta, Panch Say Barsha: Sun ho ki Ghun? (Research and Criticism), Koudi (Collection of poetry), Aakash Bibhajit Chha (Novel, co-authored), Peepalbot (Poems of Japanese model, co-authored), Paryayawachi Sabdakosh (Dictionary) are his published works. He also edited Sundarikalik and Reetuvarnan tatha Samashypurti while Mahamandal is published even today under his chief editorship.]