(1)
Validation from personages
is a sticky program.
Coalesce with catenation
of the marketplace
is usually nonpartisan.
A thumbs-up from the slush pile is a nod
to the beauty of busking.
It’s my cavalcade.
A novice one day will be nobody’s fool.
This is consecution and its creed.
(2)
Your John Hancock on a sleeve
lies on the ledge.
The record is missing.
The gramophone
is on the fritz.
The signature
like a flake of sunshine
reminds me of ridges
we crossed to refine
our epigram.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight books of poetry. Legato Without a Lisp is his latest (CLASSIX, New Delhi, September 2024). His poetry has been published in over thirty-five countries and has appeared in more than 500 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He edited Dreich Planet # 1 India, an anthology for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in December 2022. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. In 2023, he won the First Prize in a Poetry Competition by the National Defence Academy, Pune. He was conferred the 2023 Setu Award for Excellence. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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