She paints in leafless trees
With summer breezes
Air conditioning
We sit - Daphne and Dionysus
With laurel wreaths atop our heads
Chakras blooming
And understand another side of love
Thelma and Louise
Anne and Sylvia
Two sister spirits
With tongue and pen
Paintbrush and friendship
At the gates of an opening
So deep and so vast
When we think of it
We gasp
Her and I
We can barely muster up the courage
Sometimes to face
Ourselves
But we can paint
Sing and lament
As a cat purrs along to the hymns
She hums and
I whisper
