• I truly think
    that our love will change the world.
    I believe in it
    in the same way
    that I never believed
    in Santa Claus
    and the tooth fairy
    (and secretly, I always desperately wished to be wrong.)
    I know sometimes
    I act as though I doubt it
    I forget, for a few weeks
    or months
    that it exists.
    And then all it takes is one
    solitary fragment
    the smell of cinnamon rolls baking, for instance--
    or the touch of red velvet as I trail my fingers across the stacked bolts of fabric at Hancock's--
    or the blonde ponytail of a driver in the car next to me
    as I pause at a red light--
    to bring it all rushing back
    in a heady, wild, crashing thunder.