C.W. Bryan

From the Window at 6:12 am

All night
The night is blackening.

A month-long compost.
My muscles shiver in the moment

When gray first arrives,
Settling into its bones,

A baby deer learns to walk.
He is unaware of how black

The night becomes. His eyes are
full and wet as canyons. Pinestraw

Bends like light under a sure enough
foot before snapping in fear of dawn.

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.