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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.

Portrait

Sanjeev Sethi

He wasn’t friends
with the single
as it reminded him
of his singularity.
He didn’t deal with couples
as it marred
his makeup.

In the flames of loneliness
he singed
till the pitter-patter
of words,
those tiny droplets
of engagement
saved him, his hide.

— Sanjeev Sethi

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