FLOWERS ARE A FORM OF COMMUNICATION

also birds

also rain

when it drops onto your eyelid

while you walk from the car

to the house

your mouth

moving

when you sing a song I can’t hear

the wind

on skin

there is nothing living

that is not communicating

something.

Cynthia Henebry’s photographs have been exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sweetbriar College, The Houston Center for Photography, Page Bond Gallery, and countless other galleries and small museums throughout the United States.

She previously worked as a Five Element acupuncturist and herbalist, and has led classes in creativity and meditation at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School for the Arts and the Richmond City Jail. She has a strong interest and investment in the connection between individual and community healing, and currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with her family, where she was born.

Deaf Shell Press is a creative container

(A hug, a home, a shell)

Reach out about hosting a reading!

Book and album release party with Diane Cluck 11/7/25. Here Shaniqua Lovee performs the poem “What I Want” while Cynthia interprets in American Sign Language.

Photo by Anna Gibbs