BILL PRINGLE

PUSHING PAINT


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TWO LEAVES

I saw a golden butterfly
As if it were a day in July

The steam was rising off the bay
They sky as clear as a day in May

It fluttered its wings in a maple tree
As real as anything we see

The wind chill may have been forty below
I plunged knee deep in new fallen snow

But for a few seconds I truly did see
A butterfly in a maple tree