Sanjeev Sethi- Two Poems

The recently released, This Summer and That Summer, (Bloomsbury) is Sanjeev Sethi’s third book of poems. His work also includes well-received volumes, Nine Summers Later and Suddenly For Someone. He has, at various phases of his career, written for newspapers, magazines, and journals. He has produced radio and television programs.

 

His poems have found a home in The London Magazine, The Fortnightly Review, Allegro Poetry Magazine,  Otoliths, Lemon Hound, Solstice Literary Magazine, Off the Coast Literary Journal, Synesthesia Literary Journal, Oddball Magazine, Hamilton Stone Review, Indian Literature, Journal of the Poetry Society (India), The Hindu, The Statesman, and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.

 

Poems are forthcoming in Sentinel Literary Quarterly, and  Literary Orphans.

FAME

 

Well-versed tomes whitewashing

the inner maquette of maestros,

clutter literary hallways.

 

Does limelight rescue them

from their private curse?

Does arrival compose suffering?

 

 

 

SELTZER, PLEASE!

 

Umpteen evenings 

spent drinking

to perks of partnership.

As absorption grew  

promises and premises

were swapped

with steam and spirit.

But the chessboard outside

the honky-tonk

had other theories…

I am on the wagon.