Not in pieces yet;
perhaps with an imperforation.
My shadow has an alias,
but it is not easy
to pick new phrases.
My conditions turn me
into a monopsony:
I buy myself.
On the parapet of
an evening gone wrong,
I am cautioned about the intimidation
of walls, of me offering myself
the security of brattice.
The remit is to enervate
the other emotionally:
So the caret recedes.
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Sanjeev Sethi
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Sanjeev Sethi is an award-winning poet who has authored eight poetry books. His poems have been published in over thirty-five countries and appear in more than 500 journals, anthologies, and online literary venues. He edited Dreich Planet # India, an anthology for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in December 2022. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by the Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. He is highly commended in the erbacce prize, UK, May 2025. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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