for Aarna Sharma

Aarna

Harsh

a love written in water, then in the earth

sink

the current

Some loves do not arrive as thunder.

the shimmer

They arrive as light, catching on dark water.

the quiet

Quiet first. Then everywhere at once.

aaru

This is how looking at you feels.

then

And then you did something beautiful.

she made this

Then you wrote us into the Earth.

a river learning how to say you

Aarna · from the sky

again, because once was never enough

Aarna · from the sky

routes the sky already knew

Aarna · from the sky

near, even from orbit

Aarna · from the sky

still you, at the end of the name

Aarna · from the sky

here. still here.

Harsh · from the sky

and, always the joining word

Harsh · from the sky

returning to the same name

Harsh · from the sky

softly, the way you made me

Harsh · from the sky

home is a letter you drew from earth

Harsh · from the sky

Scroll — the planet keeps spelling you.

Aarna’s artwork: Aarna and Harsh spelled from Earth landscapes

the picture you made

I still get happy in the exact same way.

You turned satellite rivers into our names. AARNA above. HARSH below. Two people, held in the planet like it had been waiting to say it. This is the center of the site because it is the center of how proud I am of you.

Aarna made this.

a constellation

Reasons I keep orbiting you.

You made our names out of the Earth. I love that so much.

01 / 08

unseal

A letter, for you.

Aaru,

I started writing 101 things I love about you. It is not 101. It is everything. It is infinite.

I love your smile. Watching you smile gives me a kind of peace I cannot explain. I love the little things you tell me. I want to remember all of them.

I want to be your safest place. I want to cheer so loud for you that you never notice who didn't. I would do anything for you.

If I am being honest I grin like an idiot whenever you text me. I am not even trying to hide it.

I love you. I will keep loving you. That is it.

Yours, in every tide,

Harsh