Tautology of Blue                                                                         Bio
                                    by: Cheryl Snell

  We are Here.
There looks better,
though it could be a trick;
illusion, bad camera angles.

We won’t lose a thing
by going There. Here fits
into There, a matrouska
of defunct eyes and ears.

The move from Thither to Yon
implies a stretch of homelessness.
Against the horizon, words
spread out
like a migration of wings
on rivers reflecting mountains;
and vice-versa, a tautology of blue.

We’d never have gone if we’d known
we’d end up right where we started.
Cheryl Snell is a two- time Pushcart Prize nominee and the author of two chapbooks of poetry, Flower Half Blown (Finishing Line Press, 2002) and Epithalamion (Little Poem Press, 2004). Her novel, Shiva’s Arms, will be out next year from The Writer’s Lair Books.