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Category: Letters

The Long Way Back

June 23, 2026

English, Letters, Musings, Poetry, Ramblings

naharchowck

I do not buy the ticket. I keep the boy a boy, I keep the tree, and the light switch exactly where my hand remembers. I keep a house where the hinge still complains. I keep a lane the rain has not yet hardened. I keep my mother’s voice in the next room, counting something,…
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marginalia

June 15, 2026

English, English Poetry, Letters, Musings

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A poem about loving the letter more than the sending – and the letter that goes out everywhere but to you.
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Happy Birthday

February 5, 2026

English, Letters, Monologues, Musings

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I found you a year ago on this day, and I promised to wish you not virtually the next time around. I failed the geography of that promise, but not the truth of it. This is not just pixels on a screen. It is a heartbeat sent across the wire.
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प्रिय तिमी, म तिम्रो आश गर्छु।

October 11, 2025

Letters, Nepali, Nepali literature

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बिहानको ३:१३ बज्यो। मैले यो लेख्नै नहुने। तर रात गहिरिएको छ, र रातलाई दयामाया छैन। मेरो कोठाको भित्ताबाट पानी र डढेको कफीको मिश्रित गन्ध आउँछ। अब पानी, पानीजस्तो लाग्दैन र भित्ताहरू तिम्रो नाम कानेखुसी गर्छन्। भुइँमा मेरो छायाँ घरीघरी बदलिन्छ। म आफैँलाई सम्झाइरहन्छु कि तिमीलाई नलेखूँ, तर पनि, हेर म यहाँ छु, सायद कहिल्यै नपठाउने…
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प्रिय म, (ऐनाभित्रको पत्र)

October 11, 2025

Letters, Nepali, Nepali literature, Nepali Poetry, Ramblings

naharchowck

तिमी बुझ्नेछौ; स्थिरता असम्भव छ, तर सुन्दरता हरेक बिहान सम्भव हुन्छ। अन्ततः ऐनाले तिम्रो अनुहार बोक्दैन अब त्यहाँ, तिम्रो आत्मा झल्किन्छ; ऐनाभित्रको घामको झिल्कोमा म लुप्त हुन्छु, तिमी बाँच्छौ; अरू धेरै जन्मदिनहरूका निमित्त।
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Dear you, I hope you.

October 4, 2025

Letters

naharchowck

I like you. I adore you. I love you. I hate the word, but it is the only one left. I love you. It is killing me. It is keeping me alive. I like you. I love you. I hope you. Listening to your heart is a tough task, I apologize for making you read…
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