1.
Like deadly red ants
down they went into you, came back
out through a crack in the wall,
finding in my right foot
a good biting place.
2.
The glass, the old faces, the night,
I look up at the sky.
It opens another front in the eyes.
A red moon in the mouth.
I still search for dry blood in the fissures.
3.
There are roots deep within.
Maybe you are full of happiness.
Our eyes trapped
between golden brown streaks of light.
We stand at the edge of the spires.
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Gopal Lahiri
Picture Nick Victor
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Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 33 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry and prose are published across more than one hundred journals and anthologies globally His poems are translated in 18 languages and published in 19 countries. He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021 and Best of the Nets for poetry in 2025. His ‘Selected Poems’ was published by Classix, New Delhi. His recent book ‘Wasp and Filament ‘ was published by Hogg Press, Madison, US.
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