Love Without a Story

by Arundhathi Subramaniam

‘Best to meet in poems’ – Eunice de Souza

The first rains are always this plagiarism of yearning,

And that’s how I discovered that keyholes always reveal more than doorways.

That a chink in a wall is all you need to tumble into a parallel universe.

‘The tongue is alone and tethered in its mouth’ -John Berger