songs in eggs

I loved this image, especially because I could never turn vegan thanks to my love affair with eggs (cheese and yogurt are on the same pedestal).

This is an excerpt from the same Carl Sandburg poem, Cornhuskers (1918)

I. Prairie
[...]

Look at six eggs
In a mockingbird’s nest.
Listen to six mockingbirds
Flinging follies of O-be-joyful	120
Over the marshes and uplands.
Look at songs
Hidden in eggs. [...]

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