love is inconvenience waking up at 6am to drive your best friend to court & all the
way back out to San Jose for the tacos she loves after arguing red or green sauce in a sticky
vinyl booth sitting on the amtrak for a night & a half running 3 terminals of the
Dallas airport in heeled boots on the cheapest layover you could find
love is asking is waiting unnecessarily in the car until she is inside
is Huong & their grown out fade Victoria’s babydoll dresses & pineapple hemp
cigarettes tobacco makes her head hurt love is lifegiving & I am made of
every girl who lent me shoes Kavya with her wide smile & raven hair always
pressing me to eat Nina & her lipstick pink as tendon watching a movie
starring a Hutcherson with our legs tangled together
gossiping over mint tea our laughter like a screen door in spring