Hello Nurse

"take her wrap, fellas.......find her an empty lap, fellas"

One day the nurse was swimming for pleasure or for her life, the moon lit her skin like a candle and a candle lit the moon like her skin, the pale beams skittered off the grey scales of circling piranhas, and picked out the stones in her second best tiara quite prettily. When she arrived at the station the nurse picked up her resolve, tied a knot in it and stuffed it in the inside pocket of her bathing suit.
She returned to the pool house alone and with friends, but not at the same time, which was when she found it - or it found her. Anyhow one of them was shivering under a damp towel, a tiny pinkish snout poking rudely through a slit in the soggy material.
'Hello Nurse' it said or the nurse said in a perfectly neutral tone, as if it had been practicing, 'I thought you'd never come.' The nurse panicked and scooped it up, she tried to squish it in her handbag but it was too big and it's flippers kept getting caught in the zip, so she decided to keep it under her hat. It stayed for a month living off bon bons, toast crumbs and droplets of homemade lemonade which the nurse passed it surreptitiously.
During the day, in bed, they had conversations about art: Renoir, Picasso, Diana Ross and the Supremes, also nature and love, which the nurse was embarrassed to admit she did not know how to work properly, despite having had expert tuition under a well known physician and humanist in Vienna for two weeks when she was a novitiate.
They arranged a rendez vous in a quick drying city centre forest, with a fast falling bishop, she transferred her new friend into the bishops upturned mitre and they sang the sacred song, all they had to do now was wait...