Worm Food and Bone Sand

<p class=ql-align-center><em>From dust I come and to dust I'll return.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>Worm food and bone sand </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em>I'll infiltrate the earth as it infiltrates me.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Worm Food and Bone Sand</em> is a tender and unflinching debut poetry collection detailing the awkward beauty that lies within the loss of innocence and the evolution of self. </p><p><br></p><p>Through a recollection of her teenage years Ellis plunges readers into striking ruminations on identity and mortality trauma and transformation and the vulnerability of discovering love. A time-capsule of firsts flitting between witching hour the sea crumpled linen bare skin and the deep recesses of memory <em>Worm Food and Bone Sand </em>takes no prisoners and dissects all that is painful in protest of impermanence. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><em>*existential dread has entered the chat*</em></p>