Breakdown
Privation rives the centrality
of the self-image pivot.
Words are let on to pinch us
as if pain fills the caldera.
Haptic maneuvers don’t end
the hollowness.
Indigence apart,
neediness is a condition.
Replenishment
of the catchall isn’t a cure.
Balsam lies in the brain.
Ministering emotions perfumes the perimeter.
Sanjeev Sethi has authored seven books of poetry. Published in over thirty-five countries, he is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. Highly commended inerbacce-prize 2024 for poetry, UK, with over 9000 submissions worldwide, Sethi lives in Mumbai, India.
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