Coiled and Swallowed

By Sara Crawford

A collection of personal poems that weave together a collage of moments--from an ode to carpet to a fantastical friendship with a vampire to chronicles of a first love now broken. This is a collection that will speak to the young, the inspired, the traveled, and the wise.

 

"Sara Crawford's confessional poems capture youth in a way that's delicate, authentic, and will break your heart." - Amelia Cook, Black Heart Magazine

 

"A young writer who has a burgeoning voice that is altogether recognizable with a touch of Southern charm." - Virgogray Press

 

Originally published in 2010.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sara Crawford
• Release date: Mar 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393957836

Sara Crawford

Sara Crawford is an author, a playwright, and a musician. Ever since she was five years old, she has lived for art in one form or another. This manifested itself as writing plays at age eight and convincing (forcing) the neighborhood kids to perform them on her driveway, auditioning for Atlanta Ballet's The Nutcracker three years in a row before finally landing a small role as a toy soldier, starting an all-girl band in high school, writing and producing her own plays and short films, and most recently, writing a YA trilogy about a girl who falls in love with her Muse (THE MUSE CHRONICLES). Sara has been an actress, a singer, a playwright, a songwriter, a guitarist, a keyboard player, a poet, a screenwriter, and an author of both fiction and non-fiction. She graduated in 2008 from Kennesaw State University with a B.A. in English and in 2012 from the University of New Orleans with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (emphasis in Playwriting). She has taught creative writing courses for Southern New Hampshire University, and she has been in numerous bands in Atlanta, including Pocket the Moon. She also loves to talk about books, music, and writing on her YouTube channel and talks art and creativity on her new podcast, Find Creative Expression. For more information visit http://saracrawford.net or https://www.youtube.com/user/saracrawford.

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Coiled and Swallowed

––––––––

A book of poems by

Sara Crawford

Copyright © 2010 Sara Crawford

All rights reserved.

For Michael

recollected in tranquility.

Contents

Introduction

Spinning

Ode to Carpet

Three Hours to Memphis

Sunrise

I Hope Vampires Like Loud Music

Break

Jigsaw Puzzles

Flask

Suburban Evening

Flickering

Green

Music Theory

For Frank

It's Not Important

To the Dancer

The Novelist

Visiting

Dreaming

Envy

Georgia June Outside of a Coffee Shop

It's Over

Roots

Bullfighting

Cement Steps

Music

Introduction

This collection was originally published when I was 25 years old in 2010. It is a collection of personal and confessional poems that I wrote mostly between 2007 and 2010. These poems encapsulate what the experience of my early twenties was like. Even the poems that are fictional or a blend of truth and fantasy are accurate in terms of feeling, tone, and voice.

Spinning

Westerners are fleeing war-torn Lebanon,

CNN.com broke the news to me this morning,

Christians are talking about the end of our days,

Suddenly, I have become estranged.

CNN.com broke the news to me this morning,

My outstretched hand longs to communicate.

Suddenly, I have become estranged.

My head spins with thoughts of you.

My outstretched hand longs to communicate,

The particles between us are on fire.

My head spins with thoughts of you,

floating through this town, separated by wheels and glass.

The particles between us are on fire.

I look away for fear of the urgency of now,

floating through this town, separated by wheels and glass.

Tonight, I'll close my eyes, but sleep won't come.

I look away for fear of the urgency of now.

Christians are talking about the end of our days.

Tonight, I'll close my eyes, but sleep won't