This collection of poems, interspersed with a few stories and dialogues, is officially about love and family ties, but, to quote Wiliam Shakesspeare, "What is love?" This book offers no neat answers or definitions but rather reflects attitudes of a highly personal and sometimes idiosyncratic nature on things in one way or another connected with the idea of love and affection. In any case poems are dialogues involving the reader no less than the supposed author, and so I invite readers to let their minds freewheel and respond, if they will, in words and verses of their own.