Gopal explores the intersection of nature and silence in DifferentTruths.com, capturing a luminous, meditative transition from dusk to deep dreams.

We sat in a circle, watching the dark sky, a living canvas. Someone left a little while ago, rising from their head, a silence – there was no time – nor did anyone return – as if someone was about to speak – we stumbled upon every place and got hurt, we never mixed with anyone, we moved forward. Someday, jacaranda would be blooming here.
 
Today, that soft earth, a narrow river line -the soft sound of the water's current, the watery moonlight, small stars drowning in the water, the cloud eyes closing together – we all lay in a circle, asleep. We were sleeping, but when did we fall asleep? Meanwhile, silence joined with a face of night, gradually becoming clearer.
 
star lights come on
the trees full of
sleeping birds

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Gopal Lahiri

Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, and translator with 33 books, including eight edited volumes. Anthologised in over 150 journals and anthologies worldwide and translated into 18 languages across 17 countries, he has received the Setu Excellence Award, a Pushcart Prize nomination, a Best of the Net nomination, the First Jayanta Mahapatra National Award, and First Prize at the 43rd World Congress of Poets. His Selected Poems was published by Classix, New Delhi.