The poems in The Recovery House take the reader on a journey that is both surprising and familiar. Due to a genetic condition, the poet anticipates one loss (that of her hearing), but is given another in the dissolution of her twenty two year marriage. The connection between loss and beauty is highlighted, while nature provides a ballast. The Recovery House encourages us to keep going; to grieve/be joyful/pour the tea.... the redbud blossoms are in the future again!
WITHOUT SOUND
I can finally see the birds
the birds.
Cynthia Henebry is a graduate of Bates College, The Academy for 5 Element Acupuncture, and Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts. Her 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, and in families and communities with whom she is committed to heal.