Dinner with Donna

Good food, good wine, talking over good times
as well as troubles, squabbles, stories that we'd never
told before, at least to one another.
Marriage-bound, so not by blood,
but thicker than the water you hear
mentioned, we are joined by sharing
in a family, true, but there's the deeper pull of hearts
intentionally wishing one other to be happy.
The name we took, the same exact,
has meaning, to be sure, but the understanding
and acceptance we've discovered over thirty
years and change goes far beyond the fact
that we are simply wives of brothers. Note that
technically the bond depends upon those men,
but the depth of sisterhood runs far below the
current of the river on which we are all,
at least for now, afloat.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013