Vandana Devi

Vandana Devi is a 20 year old from Kerala currently living in Chennai, India where she is doing her third year of college. She likes writing because she’s no good at the talking business. She has been published on the Underscore Review, Foliate Oak, Girls Right The World and hopes to one day publish her own book of mundane things.

“the poem which is the story of us”, “to R, who asked me to jump into the pool” and “of the understanding of love and other such things”

this poem is the story of us/
written
between two pieces of paper/
he talked about us as though
he is not one amongst us/
as far
as i’m telling the story, the talk is
about us, ie, you and me and him/

Vandana Devi

Vandana Devi is a 20 year old from Kerala currently living in Chennai, India where she is doing her third year of college. She likes writing because she’s no good at the talking business. She has been published on the Underscore Review, Foliate Oak, Girls Right The World and hopes to one day publish her own book of mundane things.

“the poem which is the story of us”, “to R, who asked me to jump into the pool” and “of the understanding of love and other such things”

this poem is the story of us/
written
between two pieces of paper/
he talked about us as though
he is not one amongst us/
as far
as i’m telling the story, the talk is
about us, ie, you and me and him/

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