Free Verse · Love
Evidence
For her, who asks if I love her:
see attached —
one umbrella tilted your way all of March,
my jacket, permanently borrowed,
your side of the bed defended from the cat,
and every plan I've made since June
with two of everything.
The defense rests.
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“Evidence” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/evidence-of-love
Quick facts
- Poem
- Evidence
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Love, For Her, Funny
Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalEvidence, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 8a92ee9d7118b507…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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