In Bloom, by Nicole Langley

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. In Bloom, Nicole Langley’s debut chapbook, is an expression of nature, femininity, romance, and growing into one’s self. It’s minimal, simple. It’s not loud, it’s quiet, like a slow creeping vine. It’s an exploration into thoughts that could be considered too womanly, too romantic, too soft, in a world that constantly tries to harden the sensitive. Despite the short, impactful style of the poems, vivid imagery and diction detailing scenes of nature leave the reader with complex feelings and thoughts of introspection. To appreciate pauses in time to observe the small things in life that make it worth living - to ponder the way a blade of grass dances, the melody of birdsong, or how sunlight hits the skin. In Bloom is also a commentary on personal and self growth, beginning with nothing but a barren hole in the ground, only to be planted with a seed of love, and watching it grow. To accept that there may be some crooked and torn leaves, some wilted petals, but being accepting and proud of the blossoming flower that blooms despite it all. Nicole Langley, author, ponderer, and tea-lover, graduated from University of Texas at San Antonio with a degree in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. Her poetry has been published before in Wingless Dreamer and Poet’s Choice, and is excited to continue her art, her passion, her life of writing. She is known to put words on paper and watch them come to life to weave stories and poems that speak on life’s magical whimsies, femininity, nature, important matters and topics, or just the musings of a loud mind.