Poem #76: Rescue

Rescue

he breathed the 

usual hundred times 

drowning among the 

languid tulips 

lost in a splash

of concerned smiles 

and desperate 

clichés the 

cost of rescue 

a wink and 

a hesitant closeness 

deepening 

into a slippery trust

(c) 2013, by Hannah Six

Sunset Beach, Cape May, NJ