Ad Incendo is a searing exploration of identity, trauma, and rebirth-
A collection that smolders with tension and sparks the courage to confront what lies within. It is a journey into the heat of the human experience, a meditation on breaking and becoming, and a promise that even in ruin, something can rise from the ashes.
Within these pages, Ausi gives voice to the words that demanded to be heard-emerging as she navigated trauma, love, life, and the complexities of sexuality.
Through poetry, she begins the process of reclaiming herself, uncovering both her strength and her truth.
A survivor of childhood, religious, and relational trauma, she often carried the weight of isolation-the quiet belief that no one could fully understand or listen. Writing became her refuge: a place where thoughts ignited, pressed against silence, and finally found their way into the world.
Because life can feel like climbing endlessly toward the surface, only to have the rope slip from your grasp-sending you crashing back down. And in that darkness, it's easy to believe you are alone...
This collection reaches back from that darkness with an outstretched hand-one that understands, one that says I see you. Through shared experience and reflection, it offers both companionship and the space to pause, examine, and begin to reshape the mind. Because while every journey is different, no one is meant to endure it alone.
We are the ones responsible for tending to the flame of our lives.
We hold the power to let it burn us, allow it to die out or to be reborn from its ashes.
So come, let me walk beside you, not ahead or behind, but hand in hand, through the heat of your becoming.
As the fire burns and whispers the truth of who you are and what you feel, I ask that you meditate on one question:
Is the fire the enemy..or the path to becoming who you were meant to be?
-Ausi
