Before it could be constructed it collapsed,
tholing me to truss your talkfests.
As spokesperson of the peripatetic
I’ve had to portage stress
of your sayings in phrenic slits.
Sometime these titubate like the tamp
of thoughtless footsteps tiptoeing on mines
of mythical language, at times these strike
me as my own. Descent of sough dilates
my inner space with its softness.
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 including The Penmen Review, Red Fez, Indiana Voice Journal, Dime Show Review, Zoomoozophone Review, Chronogram, Stanzaic Stylings, Visual Verse, Poetry Pacific, Transnational Literature, Meniscus, Bluepepper and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.
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