Ki Russell
Ki Russell teaches writing, literature, and creative writing at Blue Mountain Community College in Oregon. She is the author of Antler Woman Responds (Paladin), The Wolf at the Door (Ars Omnia), and How to Become Baba Yaga (Medulla). She also serves as poetry peer reviewer for Whale Road Review. Her poems have been published in many online and print journals. She recommends PAWS: Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter.
My children watch me struggle
not to send myself back to space.
We pretend my shadowy smiles fool
people formed in time with my pulse.