birdsong is next

The next single from the Nature EP will be Birdsong.

Says Carl Sandburg in Haze:

Keep a red heart of memories
Under the great gray rain sheds of the sky,
Under the open sun and the yellow gloaming embers.
Remember all paydays of lilacs and songbirds;
All starlights of cool memories on storm paths . . .

My love is a yellow hammer spinning circles in Ohio, Indiana.
My love is a redbird shooting flights in straight lines in Kentucky and Tennessee.
My love is an early robin flaming an ember of copper on her shoulders in March and April.
My love is a graybird living in the eaves of a Michigan house all winter.
Why is my love always a crying thing of wings?

On the Indiana dunes, in the Mississippi marshes, I have asked: Is it only a fishbone on the beach?
Is it only a dog's jaw or a horse's skull whitening in the sun?
Is the red heart of man only ashes?

 . . . Why do the prairie roses answer every summer?
Why do the changing repeating rains come back out of the salt sea wind-blown?
Why do the stars keep their tracks?
Why do the cradles of the sky rock new babies?