The Bluejay’s Dividend

Several years ago I was staying in a cabin on Cape Cod working on poems that were eventually published in Hide Songs. While there I went running in the woods and became quite lost, ending up down by the Atlantic shoreline. The idea for this poem began to formulate but wasn’t completed until recently. 

As it is a metrical,  rhyming poem I thought it would be fun to create some music to go with it - and here is the result.