Alder & Ash: The Art of Burning Beautifully Vol. I

Alder & Ash: The Art of Burning Beautifully
by Journey Llewellyn

In this hauntingly raw and soul-baring debut, Journey Llewellyn lays bare 25 years of poetry born from the ashes of survival. Alder & Ash is a reckoning—a visceral exploration of emotional and mental abuse, betrayal, miscarriage, and the long, aching unraveling of a marriage that silenced the self.

These poems walk with you through the smoldering ruins of loss and trauma, through the echo of slammed doors and whispered apologies that came too late. But they also guide you deeper—into the sacred remembering of self, the fierce love of a mother, the wisdom of ancestors, and the quiet power of rising.

This collection is both eulogy and invocation. It honors the brokenness and the beauty, the fire and the fertile ground it leaves behind and for anyone who has endured, who has grieved, who has rebuilt—Alder & Ash is your mirror, your companion, and your flame.