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)

20 March 2020

glass shadow

Two stanzas from “glass shadow”:

sometimes it’s blindfolded
intoxicated on a ballet stage
other times, it’s a brandished claymore

it flays my flesh
appears aloof, walls no one
sees, copes with day
torment, misery
at night, it spins in a disco ball head
it’s all I have

© 21 December 2019
Cindy B. Stevens

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