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Immersed in the songs of blue jays, yellow-throated warblers, and red-shouldered hawks on his forty-six-acre farm in rural South Carolina, acclaimed poet and ornithologist J. Drew Lanham exchanges calls with the birds that stop over at his home during their seasonal migrations. For Drew, these creatures are gods, transcendent beings who summon a response of reverence. Reverberating with sound, music, light, and ethereal cinematic expression, A Mystical Ornithology weaves a kinetic texture for the senses and invites you into a poetic evocation of the paradox of love and grief within the changing nature of the seasons.
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00:11You don't miss the water until the well runs dry.
00:19You miss spring when the whippoorwill don't cry.
00:38I still have dreams of being a bird.
00:43I call myself failed Icarus.
00:50You know, the writing allows me to put myself in a space where I can imagine being a bird.
01:00I don't see the food.
01:07You'll see the счet-num.
01:08I love you too.
01:11I love you too.

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