Meredith MacLeod Davidson

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 poems in Propel Magazine, Cream City Review, Frozen Sea, and elsewhere, and serves as senior editor for Arboreal Literary Magazine.

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A Conduct Akin to Crime

If you are a stone then I am

sorry for the moment

we were but a-float-in wat-

-er you sank faster than I.

I.I

With every surge of body

cardiac missed the clock-shift

siphoned daylight, split then

misaligned, brief, bloodwork

work, the very! syncopated

My very bloodwork syncopated.

If we’re being honest, I-I-I read

these journals, of a man, lawyer, fashioned

in conversation with Tecumseh, the Bible,

sure, under the bed he’d kept in-

cased, a handgun, I never saw, though

when despair emerged on the

page I tried to pick the lock.

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