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

available at

https://longleafpress.org/product/a-path-to-freedom-edited-by-lenard-d-moore-lejuane-elja-bowens-and-shannon-c-ward/


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)

02 January 2020

I am not the angel Venus calls me or mud removed impurity

Here are the second, third, and fourth stanzas of a new poem, “I am not the angel Venus calls me or mud removed impurity”:

my wildness not scorched, but
I still feel like a smoking baseball glove
after the catch

I am an angel who slips in mud
who likes the feel of it
the squish

I lie in mud
make mud angels
mud cream

© 13 December 2019
Cindy B. Stevens

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