why write?

I have to write what I hear in my head, what I dream in my sleep, what my bones ache to express.

My poems tell stories of strength, love, regret, disobedience, loss, hope, redemption, and whatever whispers.

—Cindy B. Stevens

Books Available

My first collection of poetry, Naked, is available for $12.00 at http://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/naked-cindy-stevens/


For local readers, books are also available at:

Purple Crow Books in Hillsborough, NC

The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, NC



28 December 2018

two stanzas from "it's not about December":


I exhaust me
I hear wind before it reaches my hair
breeze sways my nightgown
trees shadow an orangey pale-pink sky
sunrise at the stable
blue-bright morning star



ice on boughs like crystals and diamonds on firs
shatters to the ground
splits my silence like bagpipes in Brooklyn
I stay, wait, hope
I go back to the manger

© Cindy B. Stevens
18 December 2018


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