Brackish
By Josie Ellis | Poetry
All around us yet often unnoticed. Polluted and protected, worshiped and neglected. Water is within us, beneath us, and above us all at the same time. In her debut poetry collection, Josie Ellis explores the deeper ways in which water shapes and touches us in this world. Through the expansive mirrors of three sections of poems, Tidal Pools, Tributaries, and Watershed, Ellis reflects on young adulthood and connection. Drawing from her own experiences and memories of lakes and oceans, pools, and bays—from a river baptism to the smell of chlorine on one’s skin—she attempts to uncover and celebrate how and why we value water in the way we do. Most of all, she urges us to see “what a privilege it is to feel / water in one’s hands.”
By Josie Ellis | Poetry
All around us yet often unnoticed. Polluted and protected, worshiped and neglected. Water is within us, beneath us, and above us all at the same time. In her debut poetry collection, Josie Ellis explores the deeper ways in which water shapes and touches us in this world. Through the expansive mirrors of three sections of poems, Tidal Pools, Tributaries, and Watershed, Ellis reflects on young adulthood and connection. Drawing from her own experiences and memories of lakes and oceans, pools, and bays—from a river baptism to the smell of chlorine on one’s skin—she attempts to uncover and celebrate how and why we value water in the way we do. Most of all, she urges us to see “what a privilege it is to feel / water in one’s hands.”
By Josie Ellis | Poetry
All around us yet often unnoticed. Polluted and protected, worshiped and neglected. Water is within us, beneath us, and above us all at the same time. In her debut poetry collection, Josie Ellis explores the deeper ways in which water shapes and touches us in this world. Through the expansive mirrors of three sections of poems, Tidal Pools, Tributaries, and Watershed, Ellis reflects on young adulthood and connection. Drawing from her own experiences and memories of lakes and oceans, pools, and bays—from a river baptism to the smell of chlorine on one’s skin—she attempts to uncover and celebrate how and why we value water in the way we do. Most of all, she urges us to see “what a privilege it is to feel / water in one’s hands.”