For centuries, poets, mystics and troubadours have sought an answer to the question "What is this thing called love?" Where does it spring from? What is the source of love's power to burnish the human heart, or to break it? How to find love, nurture it, sustain it? Drawing from both her personal life and her life's work, the author and her illustrator have co-created a story that, for all its apparent simplicity and whimsy, comes to a bold conclusion.