poetryrepairshop 04.03:024 Contemporary International Poetry online since 1997 Cheryl Snell's work has appeared in many journals, including Antietam Review, Petroglyph, Comstock Review, Washington Review and River Oak Review. Her novel, Shiva's Arms, won an honorable mention from the Dana Literary Awards and was a finalist for the Omaha Prize. Her chapbook of poetry, Flower Half Blown, was published in 2002 by Finishing Line Press and nominated for the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry Landscape with White Noise c2004 CHERYL SNELL
	CHERYL SNELL Landscape with White Noise The zigzag of events leads us straight to the child in the closet. We'll need more pillows for this. More blankets, more comforters. A shotgun for the TV. News continues to spin on a dime. Alarmist weather. A stolen identity sits on a microchip, cooling its heels. The aroma of coffee shimmies through air ducts next door, wafting across the wide screen where shapes flicker in the dark. They do whatever it is you wouldn't, not in a million years. The hand -holding couple crosses against the light. Their orange hair lifts like prairie grass. Fun-house silhouettes sprawl across urban graffiti. I used to play acoustic, he screams over traffic. But now I'm way plugged in.			04.03 001 014 015 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012

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poetryrepairshop 04.02:024 Contemporary International Poetry online since 1997 After the Night of Delays on the Metro c2004 LYN LIFSHIN

LYN LIFSHIN After the Night of Delays on the Metro I walk back past the pond's blackness. No moon or stars. Later than the Tidal Basin's cherries, in Virginia, suddenly trees hung with lacy smoke. They're like swamp gas, mystery lights glowing where there was nothing staggering as if the branches were feathers with snow.

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