New Moon in Winter Dusk-Night Sky
Russell Willis
Fiery crescent
clinging to a dustball
perfect in its roundness,
transient in its inconstancy.
Surely a mirage, or optical illusion
planted in the dusk-night sky, a shade of
emptiness, darkness, substance, richness; mercury
blended with dark chocolate and licorice and merlot.
Flash Issue 5
Russell Willis has been profiled in THE POET Magazine and published in over twenty-five online and print journals and fifteen anthologies. Russell grew up in and around Texas, was vocationally scattered throughout the Southwest and Great Plains for two decades, and finally settled in Vermont with his wife, Dawn.