We were in hock to inventories beyond us.
Your eyeballs keyed a bunch of ballades
when they darted on strips of my shame-
lessness. I disrobed before our togs brushed
on the clothesline of tidal bores. Your palms
were my poultice. Words are copacetic, but
when they jab, the throb outdistances any turn
of phrase. Analgesia is in endogenicity.
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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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