This blog features portions of my not yet published poems.

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

Longleaf Press publication

A Path to Freedom –
A North Carolina Anthology in Honor of Military Veterans
two of my poems are included in this Anthology:
"drip"
“no return war”
November 2024.

My first collection of poetry, Naked, is available at:

https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/naked-cindy-stevens/


This collection is also available at two local bookstores:

Purple Crow Books, Hillsborough, NC

The Regulator Bookshop, Durham, NC



More of my poems appear in:

The Phoenix, Issues 60 and 61, (Pheiffer University Literary Journal)
Heron Clan VI, VII, and VIII, (Katherine James Books)

12 July 2019

an open window

The following portion is from “an open window”, where Stella cat, at a younger age, was trying to catch leaves through the screened window:

leaves waltz and wrestle
I leap, swipe at them
I forget the screen
and peek to see if
anyone watches

© 16 June 2019
Cindy B. Stevens

#cat #dignified #tabby

Photo credit:  Cindy B. Stevens

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