1
On the endpaper of
our unrecorded biography
there was no mention of
its cessation.
Ends are abrupt and uncivil,
which wasn’t our case.
We protracted it till
it didn’t matter
if it concluded
or continued.
2
As stillness lies down
its protocol
I kowtow to its kinks.
It inveigles me
to its rhythm; I
begin to see merit in paradox.
These are possible
and priceless.
Certain turfs
aren’t for us.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi has authored seven books of poetry and been published in over thirty-five countries. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. Highly commended in the erbacce-prize 2024 for poetry with over 9000 submissions worldwide; Sethi lives in Mumbai, India.
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