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Chha

Posted by Daniel Skach-Mills | Feb 8, 2026 | Poetry | 0 |

Chha

No verb
for to have
in Nepali

Sita doesn’t have
two mangoes

Instead,
with Sita
two mangoes
exist

No
ownership
no claim

World
is relationship

Sita
is the world

Chha: Nepali, pronounced, chah: is/to exist

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Daniel Skach-Mills

Daniel Skach-Mills

A 2026 Pushcart nominee, Daniel Skach-Mills’s poems have appeared in Feed the Holy, Sojourners, Sufi (Featured Poet) The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Century, and Amethyst Review. His poems are forthcoming in Wild Roof and The Pensive Journal. Daniel’s book, The Hut Beneath the Pine: Tea Poems, was a 2012 Oregon Book Award finalist. A former Trappist monk, he lives with his husband in Portland, Oregon, where he served fifteen years as a docent for Lan Su Chinese Garden. Daniel was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer in 2024.

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