"REVISIONIST HISTORY"
by Cheryl Snell

To monitor hindsight, your mate
must already love you
like a neighbor, turn a bare back
on your longings.

She timestamps each mistake
as it falls
into place, still dissembling.

In a world geared to heartbeat,
hour and minute blink
across this Formica landscape.

Knocking at the door, welcome
as room service after a long trip,
fact and facsimile open
to unhinged light.

A door like that will always close
again, the borders suddenly unclear.

You want to skew the rhythm.
You want to be heard.

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Cheryl Snell has work in current issues of Thunder Sandwich, Pebble Lake Review, Worm 33, Snakeskin and Rock Salt Plum. The author of two chapbooks of poetry, Flower Half Blown (Finishing Line Press, 2002) and Epithalamion(Little Poem Press, 2004),she has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

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