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Poetry

Sanjeev Sethi

Volume: 

3

2019-04-01

Issue:

2

Colander

You held your truth like a trophy on 

stage of togetherness. I cached mine 

in statements of the scholarly. Both 

obliterated contrariness is another’s blague. 


May all you do comes back to you is 

intentioned as a compliment but it tears 

into tropology. How to convey, one is 

in prayer sans a spectacle?




Nugaciousness 

Thumbprint of your breath on my pilose chest. 

Haptic sensations with happy sentences outline 

early drafts of our opus, never published. With

the onset of orexigenic ribs we move at a pace 

which isn’t perspicacious. Wise to precipitation 

leading to ruination isn’t palliative. Will the 

backing of recollections balm us? 




Slugfest with Sundowner 

Jam-packed in six or nine identic boxes 

on the boob tube, they mill the other sans 

gloves. Verbal boxing grazes no-one or 

their cousin. In this lives a trussed up part 

of the populace. Lingual pugilist are on hire 

for prime time: renumeration or réclame.



Thriver 

Hedgerows on my heart stemmed 

when breath needed the other. There

is contingency in uncultivation: love 

blazons here, there and everywhere 

Winnowing is a skill not many wow 

you with. In regimentation there is rectitude. Bitted emotions sublimate.

About the Poet

Sanjeev Sethi is the author of three books of poetry. His most recent collection is This Summer and That Summer (Bloomsbury, 2015). He is published in more than 25 countries. Recent credits: Talking Writing, Poydras Review, Episcopal Café, Futures Trading, Red Savina Review, Miller’s Pond, The Five-Two, Amethyst Review, Otoliths, and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.

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