Peccavi by Sanjeev Sethi

PECCAVI

 

Thuribles of trust coax me to be myself.

In the calm of auroral currents, I inhale

without worry. In the noise of many

truths I choose my assailants.

 

One’s moral compass is as good as guilt

permits it. Whetted by His workbook

outcomes are unwemmed, though our

daemon’s are lame as our lapses.

 

SANJEEV SETHI

 (First Published in Hamiliton Stone Review)

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: Off the Coast, Zoomoozophone Review, Spirit Fire Review, Drunk Monkeys, Degenerate Literature, Linden Avenue Literary Journal,Darkrun Review, The Blue Mountain Review, The Penwood Review, W.I.S.H. Press,Easy Street, Novelmasters, Postcolonial Text, Bluepepper,  Otoliths, and elsewhere. He lives in Mumbai, India.