Purge & Bloom

Purge & Bloom is a narrative reflective of processing growth and being human. Decker's debut poetry chapbook is a powerful balance of light and dark, encompassing all the connotations that come with it in its two carefully garnered sections. While its first section, Purge, holds space for expressing and processing incredibly difficult life experiences, dealing with mental health struggles, love, and relationships, its counterpart, Bloom, contains poems representing growth, renewal, and hope. The pieces are curated so that some of the work from Bloom is a response or rebuttal to its numbered counterpart in Purge, delving further into a world of duality, self-awareness, and the healthy power that notion can wield.