Contributor: Sanjeev Sethi

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Technique

As you wish them luck on their journey
you distance yourself from the process.

Empiricism

Testing the fragility of my heart
you toughened it to such an extent,
my physician cancelled the prescription.

Wordage

Wherewithal from dead words is
malison lugged in musette bags
across minds: is there a faultless
way of saying thank-you or sorry?

Indoors

Full-scale mirrors in beauty
salons play mute matchmakers.
Inflorescence of feelings
is propitious when vanity
is at its most valuable.


Comeback

On seeing another
journalist being
feted, I squirm.
Seen too many
with wobbly knees,
weak memories.


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Sanjeev Sethi is the author of three books of poetry. His most recent collection is This Summer and That Summer (Bloomsbury, 2015). A Best of the Net 2017 nominee, his poems are in venues around the world: The Stray Branch, Ann Arbor Review, Empty Mirror, First Literary Review-East, Right Hand Pointing, Peacock Journal, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Synesthesia Anthology: 2013-2017, Rasputin: A Poetry Thread Anthology, Scarlet Leaf Review, London Grip, Peeking Cat Anthology 2017, and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.