by Russell Willis

Music laying bare Mystery 
Consoling even as it overwhelms
Even as it crushes us with its majestic entropy 
It whispers the magic of grace

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Russell Willis emerged as a poet in 2019 and has since appeared in over thirty journals and twenty anthologies.  He won the Sapphire Prize in Poetry in the 2022 Jewels in the Queen’s Crown Contest (Sweetycat Press). Russell grew up in and around Texas, was vocationally scattered as an engineer, ethicist, college/university teacher and administrator, Internet education entrepreneur, and pastor throughout the Southwest and the Great Plains for two decades, finally settling in Vermont in 2003 with his wife, Dawn. You can access his poetry at REWillisWrites.com