We visited the gay men on the veranda
my wife and I traded nervous laughter
and looks.
So strange to me
calling each other 'girl!'
suddenly, whirling and crooning
to an old Supremes hit
another has a fit
over some prankish indiscretion
between his boyfriend and another
blush-cheeked, man-child, loverly she-creatures
I love them
but, brotherly.