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



26 January 2021

I want him

I wrote a recent, raw piece during my husband’s radiation and chemotherapy treatments.  Here are the last two stanzas of I want him:



. . . 

 

. . . 

 

I want callow hope

want to forget when I sleep

I don’t want tosses and turns

they bifurcate dream

 

I can’t bear my brave face

I don’t want it

I want him

 

© 9 December 2020

Cindy B. Stevens

 

 

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