Fred Cogswell: The Many-Dimensioned Self

by Tony Tremblay

Butterfly

Bedraggled now and crushed,frail soul of fluttering things,forgive my hands that brushedthe sun dust from your wings;

for though I turn and twistin weak attempts to flee,hard hands I can't resistshall do the same to me.

From The Haloed Tree. Reprinted with permission of Kathleen Forsythe, Cogswell's literary executor. Back to Selected Poems