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Thank you for the meditation on the birds and its symbolic (mis)uses. In the spirit of your poem, I’ll happily admit to writing a poem about hummingbirds through the glass.

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There's no shame in bird poems, the list of poets who've written them is long and venerable!

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Birds sneak into most of my poetry (or fly, I guess I should say).

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Many such cases!

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I really enjoyed the resurrection imagery in the second stanza. I'm looking forward to the Symbolic World magazine!

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Thanks, Drew.

Yes, we're all excited to see it out there in the world!

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You had me at the Keats mention

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If you haven't read it already, the biography of Keats by W. Jackson Bate is awesome.

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One of my earliest memories is of a bird that froze to death in the snow. I made a linocut of the fragments of that memory, I’ll have to share with you sometime.

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Wow. Yeah.

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