A surreal poem, rich in imagery, by Gopal, exclusively for Different Truths.
A hyphen rests between the cobble and pebble there is this soft light dips and rises draw the movement of the sun, colour has other laws snatching saturation of hue from the twilight. Sand scatters on the gravel beach night draws the footprints on the wind ripples of crushed silt, there is the heartbeat of the moonless sky breaks into a lullaby. The dark print of the many lives outside the walls, on the street dimness, stillness: that is the sense. glass windows have rusted hinges invisible stars suffer and lose their voices. Memories recollect in large frames learn to leave others, the images fill up the invisible doors nothing enters, nothing escapes from the old-world canvass.
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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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