Gopal explores the quiet dissonance of a rainy morning in this evocative Haibun, featured exclusively on DifferentTruths.com.
Morning, June rain. The city’s still as quiet as a lonely hamlet. The rain-slicked streets are
peaceful. The windows are open. Between the chords of a flamenco song, an aeroplane engine rumbles in the sky. An unnamed resonance is coursing through me.
The dream in which I float lies outstretched and becomes transparent. I move and begin to grope around for others’ attention. I dab rhythms, colours, images and harmonies into my moments. Metaphor may enter and speak to me after a while.
No one is here. I almost look blank to perceive context. I am emptied of seeds of trust. I bleed in silence.
morning unfolds –
falls on itself
to hide its dissonance
Picture design by Anumita Roy
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.
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