birds of time, on the wing (2006, rev. 2020) for bassoon (or baritone saxophone, or bass clarinet)

7.

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring

The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:

The Bird of Time has but a little way

To fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing. 

from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, trans. Edward Fitzgerald

birds of time, on the wing was commissioned by, written for, and premiered by Laura Wenninger.