The Quest[ion]
Ethicist and online education entrepreneur, Russell Willis, emerged as a poet in 2019, beginning with the publication on January 2 of three poems in The Write Launch. Since then, his poetry has been published in Grand Little Things, Frost Meadow Review's Pandemic Poetry, October Hill, Cathexis Northwest, Meat for Tea, The MOON magazine, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, The Esthetic Apostle, and three anthologies. Russell grew up in and around Texas, was vocationally scattered throughout the Southwest and Great Plains for many years, and is now settled in Vermont with his wife, Dawn.
By Russell Willis
Is it that we must,
or that we can, dream
that we can know
and understand, that
prods us, sometimes
sweeps us into the next?
Why then so much angst?
Please, let fear not be
the answer that enjoins
that quest lying at the
heart of our question.