I have lugged our cross longer
than you will ever know. Turns
in your phraseology, I discarded
when an escalator to an open sky
lured me to another lexicon.
The fledgling spurns evolutionary
calls as they seem eerie. If you
inspect, you will notice my haws.
Confidence is a construct,
like the levee.
Deconstruct it and you will see
the same churn in the hose of
our flow. Ripening offers
the advantage of an afterthought,
a veritable storehouse of suggestions.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight poetry collections. His poems have been published in over thirty-five countries and appear in more than 500 journals and anthologies. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press. Sethi is among the top 10 finalists for the 2021 Erbacce Prize. He is the recipient of the 2022 Ethos Literary Award. 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 poetic excellence. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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