The Abundance is Staggering in Flowerland is a roadmap for healing that is both spare and robust. Individually and together, these poems encourage us to follow the body's senses towards pleasure and wholeness. Pole dancing instructors, friends-- even ducks point the way. How do we recover? By claiming every last bit of ourselves.

"we all wanted to be free // as free as she was"

In this collection, Cynthia Henebry reminds us that pleasure is not a distraction but rather a way back to ourselves. A map. A protest. A prayer. Poetry is not frivolous; it is freedom in blossom. Breath between battles. Softness that resists. Laughter that endures. These pages celebrate aliveness, awakening, gratitude and humility. These poems offer reverence for the miraculous and the mundane. It is an ode to friendship, to sisterhood, to the sacred art of healing from a place of wholeness. This is a love letter to feeling, to healing, to making a life that feels like your own. A sacred, sensual, slow unfolding, where joy is a tool, a right, and a rebellion. Where pleasure is the point. And freedom? The poet always knew the way...

—Heather Mackay Young, author of The Ceilidh House

Cynthia Henebry's photographs have been exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The National Portrait Gallery, and countless galleries and small museums through the United States. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she was born.