{"id":6379,"date":"2014-02-24T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2014-01-29T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T16:35:01","slug":"nabin-kumar-chhetri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/nabin-kumar-chhetri\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabin Kumar Chhetri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Snow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The snow is terrible this year.<\/p>\n<p>The road towards the library<\/p>\n<p>takes longer than usual.<\/p>\n<p>I keep the books home, waiting,<\/p>\n<p>for the roads to clear up.<\/p>\n<p>Buses drag by,<\/p>\n<p>with chains on their wheels<\/p>\n<p>leaving long monotonous marks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smell of raw pines and chimney smoke<\/p>\n<p>brings your memory back<\/p>\n<p>in the thin December air.<\/p>\n<p>The train shrills past every day<\/p>\n<p>slicing the air between the hill and my house.<\/p>\n<p>Your memory touches like wind,<\/p>\n<p>and halts, at that moment<\/p>\n<p>when you left;<\/p>\n<p>like one of those winter evenings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The snow has been terrible this year.<\/p>\n<p>The days longer without you.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, I will wait,<\/p>\n<p>when they clear the snow.<\/p>\n<p>I will wait at that same station.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I feel you in each passing train.<\/p>\n<p>Please tell me, when will you come?<\/p>\n<p>I will watch from the hilltop<\/p>\n<p>when your train comes<\/p>\n<p>slowly, waltzing and whistling,<\/p>\n<p>from the bends of summer hill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nabin Kumar Chhetri<\/strong> studies at the University of Oxford. He graduated with a degree of M.Litt in Novel from the University of Aberdeen. He blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/nabinkchhetri.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nabinkchhetri.wordpress.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Snow<\/em> was first\u00a0 published in\u00a0 <em>Apple Valley Review<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Snow &nbsp; The snow is terrible this year. The road towards the library takes longer than usual. I keep the books home, waiting, for the roads to clear up. Buses drag by, with chains on their wheels leaving long monotonous marks. &nbsp; Smell of raw pines and chimney smoke brings your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}