Love is ocean
Love is wildfire
Love is the slow trickle of a creek
Love is a candlestick dripping wax down its side
Love is the unfurling of a leaf
Love is the dying of a leaf when the other one unfurls anew
Love is the thumping of her tail on the hardwood floor
Love is the song that makes you close your eyes to drink it in
Love is popsicle dripping down your cheek
Love is dust mites building in the corner of your living room
Love is prayer
Love is humming
Love is whistling
Love is choking back tears
Love is letting the tears fall
Love is dance recitals for three year olds
Love is “I’m sorry”
Love is “thank you”
Love is “help me”
Love is cemeteries
Love is polaroid cameras
Love is crickets chirping on a warm summer evening
Love is sunburnt shoulders and a few new freckles on your nose
Love is laughter that is silent because you can’t breath your laughing so hard
Love is lingering hand holds
Love is airport reunions
Love is arm tickles and foot massages while watching trash tv
Love is inside jokes and nicknames for one another
Love is packing a lunch and leaving a post it note inside
Love is the drink of water touching your dry lips after climbing the steep switchback on the mountain
Love is gravity
Love is homemade sourdough bread
Love is hands covered in sun spots and paper thin skin
Love is canyon
Love is glacier
Love is breath
Love is soil
Love is cycles
Love is death
Love is terrifying
Love is more terrifying without it
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