Rooted in the Wild

By Ashley Sims

In the quiet spaces between longing and arrival, a woman learns to listen.

Beginning at a screen door, hand hovering over the handle, these poems trace a journey from observer to participant, from silence to voice. Through forests that teach patience, relationships that demand vulnerability, and the slow work of reclaiming the self, she discovers that becoming is not a single transformation, but many.

Spread across three movements, this collection flows like water-sometimes gentle, sometimes forceful-always seeking its natural level. Through rivers and lightning strikes, fields of wildflowers and estuaries, these poems ask: How do we hold both beauty and sacrifice? How do we love what transforms us? How do we become without breaking?

Profound, earthy, and deeply human, Rooted in the Wild is a companion for those who have ever stood alone at the edge of the woods and felt, just for a moment, completely known.

This is an invitation: to remember, to root deeper, and to meet yourself where you've been waiting all along.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2VPCMVM
• ISBN13: 9798294490218
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"