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Two poems: The Nut Graph and Pith by Sanjeev Sethi

Sanjeev Sethi

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The Nut Graph

Fjords of desire are in a reliquary.
One survives on ceremonies.
A harvest forages for some time,
rich outturns render some more.

Sunlight has its shortcoming.
I saw the weaning away of our
lariat before we were cuffed
by circumstance.

Didn’t want to destabilize the set-up,
waited for it to wash away. Words let
up when wounds weep, hanging like
tousled passages of a soiled text.

Pith

When carcinoma snatched her breast
she refused to replace her eye tooth.
Pitching to be god? Try changing
someone’s drake face. One can
cushion a curve not alter it.

Sanjeev Sethi

Sanjeev Sethi is the author of three well-received books of poetry. His most recent collection is This Summer and That Summer (Bloomsbury, 2015). His poems are in venues around the world: The Tower Journal, Peacock Journal, Right Hand Pointing, Mad Swirl, Boston Accent Lit, The Penmen Review, The Penwood Review, Off the Coast, 3:AM Magazine, Morphrog 14, Ink Sweat & Tears, Otoliths, and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.

Author: Sanjeev Sethi Tags: poetry Category: Poetry July 28, 2017

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