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Glory Days

Sometimes I
wonder what
happened to
all those
beautiful girls
that rejected
me in the school
playground.
All those
beautiful girls
that rejected
me in the bars
and clubs. Some
of them truly
pitiless. Creating
scars that burn
to this day.
Where are those
women? Do
they hurt anyone
anymore.
Or is it them
that are getting
hurt now. Old
and growing
older. Looking
at a face in
the mirror
they don’t
want to see.
A face they
thought would
last forever.

Brenton Booth lives in Sydney, Australia. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Gargoyle, New York Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, Chiron Review, Main Street Rag, Naugatuck River Review, Heavy Feather Review, and Nerve Cowboy. He has two full-length collections available from Epic Rites Press.

Fragment

Betrayal found me early
giving birth to Grundyism.
Collaborators in this caper
were seniors at school,
or from our colony
in the cantonment
who befriended me
to call or come home.

When they were acquainted
with sister
a year and some months older:
I was cast aside
from their circuit of friendship.
Androgen has no grace.

Sanjeev Sethi has authored five books of poetry. Hesitancies by CLASSIX, an imprint of Hawakal, in July 2021 is his latest. A month before it, he released Bleb from Hybriddreich in Scotland. He is published in over thirty countries. He is the joint-winner of Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by The Hedgehog Poetry Press UK. He is in the top ten of the erbacce prize 2021 UK. He lives in Mumbai, India.

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