Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 33 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry is published across more than one hundred fifty journals and anthologies globally He has been nominated for Pushcart Prize for poetry in 2021and Best of the Net for poetry in 2025. He has been conferred First Jayanta Mahapatra National Award on literature in 2024 for his significant contribution in Indian English Writing.

Gopal Lahiri

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Twisted Magician

The paddy field,
a solitary black oriole.

Between blinks,
a twisted magician turns her
into a stone,
and put her into an iron cage.

For no reason,
I will travel to the east of the moon
to find the answer.