Swiftly
Rachel Madeline2021

"When words fail, music speaks." - Hans Christian Anderson
We often find ourselves unable to communicate our exact feelings and therefore turn to outlets to speak for us–like music. Songs provide tempos and rhythms to echo the pulse of our individual lives while the lyrics create the vocabulary we fail to compose. With swiftly, Rachel Madeline takes the songs that have spoken for her when she was unsure of how to express herself and reinterprets them with words she now possesses and has mastered. Inspired by Grammy-winning artist Taylor Swift, the author finds her own voice, in her first collection of poetry, with the music of her favorite artist to guide her.