While perusing your palabras, I’ve seen slivers of
skin, spotted with the treachery of thought. You
aren’t an epigone; there is no spatchcock. Your
euphonies deliver vaudeville of daedal eddies. I
marvel at the way your mind runs, your body moves.
Topiary of wordplay has me in a transeunt whirl,
invoking in me a prayer urging me to inspect my
interiority. Fully clothed, you’ve emptied me,
leaving me to long for another lexicon.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi is an award-winning poet who has authored eight poetry collections. His poems have been published in forty countries and appear in over 600 journals and anthologies. Some credits: London Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, Stand Magazine, Erbacce Journal, 3:AM Magazine, London Grip, Morphrog, North Dakota Quarterly, Hamilton Stone Review, NOON | journal of the short poem, Postcolonial Text, and Indian Literature.
Sethi curated Dreich Planet India, an anthology for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in December 2022. In October 2025, he edited Fictile Feelings, a poetry special for The Hooghly Review. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. 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, USA, for poetic excellence. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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