Willows Wake and Walk Away

By Haley Wooning

Willows Wake and Walk Away 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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948552183
• ISBN13: 9781948552189
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Half Mystic Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"