OMEN

Meredith MacLeod Davidson


The process of learning a bird

is the promise of learning a place

chirp or caw, whatever seasons morning

waiting on the hurricane taking a switch

blade’s hook East out of character

the morning she left Virginia

blood and mash on her

doorstep splayed cardinal

Meredith MacLeod Davidson is a poet and writer from Virginia, currently based in Scotland, where she recently earned an MLitt in Creative Writing from The University of Glasgow. Meredith has work published or forthcoming in Cream City Review, Poetry SouthLone Mountain Literary Society and elsewhere, and serves as senior editor for Arboreal Literary Magazine