Cynthia began reading her work at Samantha's Bookstore in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has participated in the St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading at Eckerd College, and was an invited guest at Full Contact Poetry's performance at the University of South Florida. Her work has appeared in Maelstrom Magazine, contained in the collection of Brown University Library, as well as in Poetry Conspiracy, and Hard Row to Hoe magazines and Map of Austin Poetry, Best of the Map Anthology.
The wind leans against tall blades of grass
while cornflowers struggle in blue hue to touch the sky.
They grasp at air that skirts the tips of yellowed hay
that lick at clouds.
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