Mary Grace Mangano's poem "Daybreaking"

Mary Grace Mangano, a junior English and Honors major with an Italian minor and Writing and Rhetoric concentration, has published her poem "Daybreaking" in the February 2013 issue of The DuBois Review.  Click here to see the poem and more of the magazine.  "Daybreaking" is Mary Grace's first published work;  it was originally written for Prof. Joseph Lennon's "Writing of Poetry" class last semester.

Daybreaking

wrapped up in the morning,
as daybreak blooms,
light slowly storming
through the pores of my room.

blessed luminosity hangs in space
in the quiet yawn of sunrise
the golden shafts lace
soundlessly before my eyes.

I tiptoe then pause,
buoyant, warm, and filled
with the gilded glowing gauze,
of the tender, peaceful lilt.

clear dawn grows,
undisturbed space so fair,
warm and hopeful rows
of hushed, humming air.

I watch the dust motes
meet the floating golden gleams
of falling beams that canter
through the window screen.

stretch to savor this flash –
extend time before it turns to ash.