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R o c k   S a l t   P l u m   R e v i e w     Anniversary Issue: Winter 2005

Cheryl Snell

Idea

It needs a sharp pencil. A fountain pen.

Cookies. No, not that kind. Some coffee.

Or milk. Both! It concentrates better

with the TV on, sound off. But first,

it wants a bath. And a nap. A walk

in the woods. Dinner would be nice,

but a movie might confuse it, saturate it

with symbols that swell with dreams

and come to sit on your chest at 3AM,

breath knocked out, nightshirt pounding,

notebook just out of reach.

Cheryl Snell

Cheryl Snell has new work in Cranky Literary Journal, Riversedge,

Minetta Review, VLQ,, Banyan Review, miller's pond, Lily, Kaleidowhirl and The

Pedestal. The author of two chapbooks of poetry, Flower Half Blown (Finishing

Line Press, 2002) and Epithalamion (Little Poem Press, 2004), she is a 2003

Pushcart Prize nominee.

Huge moons - see! wax and wane / Again - again - again / Every moment of the night - Forever changing places! / How they put out the starlight / With the breath from their pale faces!                     - Edgar Allen Poe

Jalina Mhyana