Snailsong

PoetrySilly Summer
Written By Ki Russell

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Sting a new song 

into my skin,

launch your love 

dart, let my mucus 

taste your hormones.


Swap sperm with me,

spend a dart on my 

whorled shell. Let me

carry more of yourself


than you. I’ll lodge

my essence under your pore —

so gentle you won’t even

gasp when I pierce your skin.


Slip up my shell,

let me lick 

the tang of mud 

from your belly.


Ki Russell

Ki Russell (she/her)  is the author of How to Become Baba Yaga (Medulla, 2012), The Wolf at the Door (Ars Omnia, 2014), and Antler Woman Responds (Paladin, 2014). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in many online and print publications. She teaches in eastern Oregon and believes people should laugh more.

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