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Sister Age With the album spread across her knees, she turns the pages of her life, where sons become brothers, nieces are cousins. A husband died, but peacefully, of natural causes. Is this you? she asks, pointing to a photo. I’m ten, my Brownie uniform weighted with badges. You were so sweet with your bandaged knees and blonde braids. You liked to sketch the horses we kept on the farm. Her farm. Her childhood. The brain unravels backward. Did I know you then? I tell her that I am her daughter. You are? How lovely! She closes the book and holds me as close as if one of us had been lost.
Cheryl’s sister, Janet Snell (artwork on page 39), has shown her art in venues including The Drawing Center in NYC, Cleveland's SPACES, and Summit Art Space in Akron. She is the author of Flytrap and other books of art and poems.
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Cheryl Snell's books include poetry and fiction, and several collaborations with her sister, expressionist artist Janet Snell. This is Cheryl’s second appearance in The Centrifugal Eye.