The trench coat of reparation is hard to trim.
No rain is large-hearted to tip off its reach.
Pinfolds remind me of possibilities. Trellis
postpones the execution of pageants forged
in my mind’s pit. The total of all aggression
translates into fine words, I don’t love you
enough. Was there ever a measurement scale?
Bickering over love is a face-off with faith.
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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. In 2023, he won the First Prize in a Poetry Competition by the National Defence Academy, Pune. He recently served as a judge of the Wood Rose Spiritual Poetry Prize 2026. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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