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Two Hearts in Moonlight

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Sumit Chauhan Princeton, New Jersey · United States Published in Aporia · Issue 3 · July 2026
Two hearts in moonlight—
silver path across the waves
leads me back to you
Author's Note This is a haiku about distance and return. The moon lays a path of light across the water that seems to point only toward the one watching it — a private road no one else can walk. I wanted to hold the feeling of being separated from someone yet somehow always being led back to them, as if even the sea and the night were quietly conspiring to close the distance.
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About the Author Sumit Chauhan United States

Sumit Chauhan is a writer from Princeton, New Jersey. He is drawn to thresholds — doorways, dusk, the sentence just before the one that matters — and to everything a person keeps but never uses. He owns more travel tidbits than books, and more books than he could ever hope to read, and remains unbothered and mildly satisfied by both.

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