Another RescueAuthor(s): Harold BondSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall, 1971), p. 29Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157794 .

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ANOTHER RESCUE

Anytime now the waters

will open. Somewhere a bullfrog

has all but swallowed

the river. Preholiday fireworks are

croaking in the distance.

I carry a dime and an ID.

I descend the cascaded steps and walk under the old

stone bridge. A patrol car's

high beams flood the walkway. Should anyone ask, I will say I am thinking beautiful thoughts:

the calves of women or the hooves

of mountain goats. I have come here

to discover what troubles me, or to forget, I am unsure which.

It is a night for all seasons.

Something is dying here.

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