in a furious storm,
the wind uproots the trees and gloats
I have destroyed you
forgetting that from fallen logs
new forests grow
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Cynthia Knorr is the author of A Vessel of Furious Resolve (Finishing Line Press, 2019). Her poems have appeared in an array of poetry journals. After a career as a medical writer in New York City, she relocated to rural New Hampshire where she enjoys listening to the birds and tramping through the woods. She serves on the editorial staff of the poetry journal Touchstone, is a 2025 Best of the Net nominee, and was longlisted for the 2024 Sappho Prize for Women Poets.
