Love Is (A Growing List)

Love Is: 

A dearest friend

The blue haze of a winter morning

Public commute

The jingle jangle of my carabiner

A seagull not near to any sea at all

The view outside the english classroom window

Every orange light in every apartment window

Ground floor apartments

Each footprint in the snow, and the people behind them

Desire paths

A cat’s pur

A camera bought 40 years before my birth

A freight train passing

Waking up in my grandparents’ apartment

A book I must read for English

The harmonica, and the banjo

The lemon, orange, and olive tree

Seats over the wheels of the bus

Each orange light in each apartment block

Little single-floor supermarkets

My girl-name

Greek statue butts

Finding a coin on the ground 

The tree with the birds that sing 

Oscar Wilde

Lebanese coffee cups

Bob Dylan’s album “Desire”

Ancient art that is not too different from mine

Road trips & the music which comes with them

The neighbors I can hear through the pipes (and their opera)

The guard that says hello to every kid at the school gate every morning