Cynthia Smith


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Cynthia  Smith
Age: 41
Joined: Nov 2007

I love authors that write from the character’s inner perspective, such as Virginia Woolf, Nancy Huston, Marguerite Duras and Paulo Coelho.

This kind of writing inspires me to keep pursuing my own voice as a writer.

I hold an MA from Tufts University and I am considering a MFA in Creative Writing.

I write poetry, prose (or something in between prose and short story) and have written even a couple of tentative novellas.

Writing

Monteiro Lobato (poem)

Small girl / Small pilgrimage / Girl walking to the grotto / To the shrine / In Monteiro Lobato Colored saints / Plaster saints / Almost real / Little fingers / Touching the stream / A placid cow /…

The Voice of Aphrodite

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Mother Medusa

Mother Medusa / Whose terrible gaze is no longer the doleful symbol / Of my only tarnish… You couldn’t decipher / The ambiguous human form / Who so devotedly curbed before yours… /…

Two Little Girls

As I walk down the street / That same one I have walked for the millionth time / I passed by the same old school, / The same one that made me old / But today / Is it a fling of hope I see? / A white …

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