Willow Leaf Boy

The willow leaf boy was interested in all kinds of marvelous things. He was especially attentive to moths, monarchs, and butterfly wings. He lived down in the willows next to a stream near the cattail pond. We hardly ever saw him, but we knew the fey were quite fond…. They had watched him grow up, and they remarked on his youth. He was always polite, scientific, and he could disappear in a poof. The willow leaf boy, is he fact, fiction, fantasy or what? I think of him when I see willows, ponds, or a pine nut.