A city I hide daily in my torn diary pages,
I am a stranger here.
You remind me for being so alive
and not destroyed by cuts and gashes.
So many girls and women are raped and
killed over the years, thousands of years.
I know about your red anger and the
color of spilled blood on the pavement.
Our conversations are always like the old-fashioned
window frames that open only part way.
Last night winds destroyed my flower pots
throwing flowers on the open verandah.
I pick it up your angry words (~ flowers) only to let it slip
through my fingers again and again.
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Gopal Lahiri
@gopalahiri
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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