It Isn’t All Hard​

Issue 8

for Carol Bryan

it isn’t all hard,
  the world I mean,
there are soft things, too
 
it isn’t all
  coffee stains, shattered glasses
dead cats, broken streetlights
 
but sometimes it gets so dark
            in the middle of the street
late, on a Tuesday night
that I forget about
fresh baked croissants, my mother,
            alive cats, stars
 
there’s a lot of those out tonight,

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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 daily with Sam Kilkenny at poetryispretentious.com. His debut chapbook Celine was published with Bottlecap Press in 2023.

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