Hayden Moore
Bio
His debut Fantasy novel, SKY TRACER, will be on shelves in November, through Vraeyda Literary. Hayden Moore grew up in Georgia and Tennessee and has lived in NYC for 15 years.
https://www.haydenmooreauthor.com
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Through the Woods Darkly
Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world. —John Muir Nymphs are proof the woods exist. Ovid knew this, as surely as owls who haunt the limbs of those timeless trees. In this sovereign realm, spiders weave poetry through the green emptiness, turning one gnarled branch into another’s dependent. Squirrels keep the acorn’s secrets, munching away at time-sensitive matter, while secrets buried are breezily told by pushover saplings in Spring. Even shadows point to life, since the mushroom’s darkness is as rich as the leaf’s sunlight and all of them exist through each other. Storm clouds look down upon the same forest they brighten, through lightning’s flicker and the living green the rain sustains. Nothing is not the woods, not within its sylvan embrace. Even rocks are living attributes, since lichen would find itself lost without its jagged little worlds to hold onto. Willows weep over streams that gave rise to them, while stunted pines mark the place where leaves give way to needled heights ruled by the wind. At the edge of the woods, where pavement and dirt collide, a dog barks at the wind in the leaves…until the wolf howls at the Moon, somewhere deep within. The dog falls silent…
By Hayden Moore4 years ago in Poets
