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Podcast: Down with Bowne (The Uncut Version)
Episode: Ode to a Catbird: A Playful Dialectic Between Poet and Bird
Description: Gunnen: Dutch: Finding happiness in someone’s happiness because you love them so much. First published on Paper Poetry.Â
"To awake before the dawn seems foolish —
But it’s the early nurseryman who wins
While the shadows on the vines seem ghoulish;
The vines this morning seem like twisted strings —
And the red berries hide in the moonlight,
Shielded beneath the enclosures of green;
But bashful, not, is the color scarlet;
I seek my breakfast before your dawn’s flight
Like prowlers upon the scene, routine,
Like a game, we ai...