A social media scroll informs me of the loss
of a late friend’s boy. The boy, in this case,
is a coeval. An intervention such as this is
fraught with feelings warning me of strophes
on skin, of frailties new and not so new.
Loaded inclines of magnitude, rappelled onto
oneself or a bouquet of diversions: Journalists
on the same side of the political divide cozing
on the television and thanking each other for
the candid conversation.
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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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