Love is dark
floral dresses
cut into skirts
for your daughters

Love is
borrowing tables
for children to
eat their
lunch and carve their
initials

It's writing her
letters when
she's lonely
in Spain

and it's
putting chapstick
on your sore
dry lips
when you can
no longer
move your hands

it's holding
onto the cold
steel bar
and hanging a
dreamcatcher
above your
hospital bed.