Willows Wake and Walk Away

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>Willows Wake and Walk Away </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(61 61 61 0.85)>is a dream sequence in the aftermath of trauma. As an unnamed speaker retraces her steps through mist-laced forests and crumbling childhood fairytales she encounters ancient gods still alive in the faultlines of memory. These are poems of relapse and revelation loneliness and liminality asking: what happens after the haunting ends when the serpent finally sleeps? What does it mean to carry the weight of a heart sloughing off its innumerable dead-and in the absence of peace learn to love a life wild uncanny and wholly one's own?</span></p>