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.
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.