What is Love?

For generations in Switzerland,
sick, injured, and heavily pregnant cows
have gotten free helicopter airlifts
from upper mountain pastures
to lower, warmer valleys,
flying through the Alpine skies
at winter’s onset, no cow left behind.

They are brought to safety and warmth
by Swiss dairy farmers making their home
in the Alps with their animals for hundreds of years.
They are grateful to the cows that provide the milk
from whence their famous cheese is made,
as good an answer to the question
“What is love?” as any I’ve yet heard.