Witnessing the gaggle of their generations, my
campanile tolls, cordage of their togetherness
pulls at the spine of my freestanding spot. I cogitate
on the conclusions of a vagrant watching a buffet
spread from the wrong side of a French window.
We redact the lines written for us, as our prouder
parts refuse to underwrite an entity with many
names but no entelechy. Some drafts later, one
surrenders, as consciousness shepherds us to its
sanative corner: In submission is sagacity.
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Sanjeev Sethi
Picture Kushal Poddar
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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