A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Michigan State University

A New Kind of Literary Pulse

Michigan State University
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Padre Island Daybreak Meditation

Allyson Davidson

Allyson Davidson

Padre Island Daybreak Meditation was accepted as part of the MSU Library Short Edition call for work on the theme of “recovery,” in coordination with the MSU Broad Art Museum's exhibit of Beverly Fishman's art, also called Recovery. Allyson Davidson lives in Austin, Texas. She began writing in the Ghost Ranch Fall Writers Festival and has been part of the Ghost Ranch writing community for the last fifteen years through festivals, summer seminars and most recently, Zoom workshops. The support, collaboration and encouragement from this community has been vital to her ongoing development and evolution as a writer attempting to make sense of the world and our places in it.

Gulf  waves
      rumble  in
           hush  -  crash
                trickle  -  slide
      out  to  sea

gulls,  white  dots
      between  island
            and  ocean —
                  twig  legs  tuck
      up  and  back

wings  unfold
      — lift —
            — hover —
                  — glide —
      back  to  the  line

shells  in  flotillas
      arrive  on  a  swell
            hues,  fawn  to  pearl
                  soft  on  the  glisten
      depart  on  a  roll

water  surrounds  ankles
      toes  melt  into  sand
            layers  shred
                  tatters  peel  away
      on  a  breeze

Gulf  waves
      rumble  in
            hush  -  crash
                  trickle  -  slide
      out  to  sea

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