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)

03 December 2020

wedding rice

I just started working on “wedding rice”:



cat hairs left by Izzy, Stella

Salem and Tigger

Bosco

Cassidy and Sundance

are wedding rice

found 2 months

2 years

20

after

 

© 27 November 2020

Cindy B. Stevens


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Photo credits:  Cindy B. Stevens (our Siamese cats, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid from 1979; can't find my photo of Bosco hanging from the quilt rack from 1986; Tigger, Salem, and Stella from 2006; Stella from 2009; Izzy from 2020)

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Location: Hillsborough, NC 27278, USA

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