Flourish ​

Issue 9

When I
first
saw you there
 
a purple flourish
of skirt
wolfs-bane head
 
in the breeze of
spring
I forgot
 
to breathe.
you
have the same
 
crystalline structure
as snow.
It falls
 
so slowly
and
so peacefully.

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C. W. BRYAN is a student at Georgia State University. He lives in Atlanta, GA where he writes poetry, nonfiction and short fiction. He is currently writing his weekly series, Poetry is Plagiarism, with Sam Kilkenny at poetryispretentious.com. His debut chapbook Celine was published with Bottlecap Press in 2023.

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