Gopal at DifferentTruths.com unveils ‘Amante’s Whisper’: a tender touch like liquid cherry folds bodies into crystalline love, shattering silence and sin in poetic adoration.
You touch with two hands against my shoulder blade. Your fingers are like liquid cherry. Like a soft blanket, our bodies fold in. When you touch slowly and slightly, it breaks the hefty silence. A geometry – perhaps a crystal isometric – that remains stable, truer than words.
A wooden door and a temple of adoration, and so your love runs its course. Running between the two banks of life does not harden inside me. You call me with a new name. I can no longer be cruel. I can be no harsher. I can be no more a sinner.
listening
your words arrive
in unasked whisper
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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