The skewness of my stopover
reaches me as I read memoirs
on the bestsellers list.
From the penumbral
to the public eye
is not everyone’s call.
Invisibility, for some, is intentional.
Omitting another from our orbit
is the harshest blue-pencil
we can adopt on the text
of human interactions.
That it impacts them or not
is for another sitting?
.
Sanjeev Sethi
Picture Nick Victor
Sanjeev Sethi has authored eight books of poetry, his latest being Legato without a Lisp (CLASSIX, an imprint of Hawakal, New Delhi, September 2024). His poems have been published in over thirty-five countries and have appeared in more than 500 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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