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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Jan 11 min read
THE VEIL
The demon clutches in the belly like a claw that screws as well as grabs.
It hurts better that way in the deepest way. The darkest way. Wa
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RED
Dec 28, 202414 min read
THE SIDEKICK
Demanding that a woman complies to his authority is in my mind akin to rape. Because you do not have her consent, after all.  You just have
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RED
Feb 23, 20242 min read
PLANET OF BLUE
A planet left out for you and me
To blow like dust a cerulean sea
And feathered blue light
Such an elegant sight
To unsettle the dust
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RED
May 6, 20237 min read
QUIET LITTLE THING
That world wanted to place a label on me and to condemn me to a lifetime of servitude to it....
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RED
Mar 1, 20231 min read
THE ARTISTS
To scrape beneath the surface brings with it its own mortality. To bleed and feel a fire made flesh. Ruby colored pulp trickles downward,...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Feb 1, 20232 min read
PHILOSOPHER QUEEN
I stood at the edge of the reflecting pool With water cascading, lush and cool I jumped into that pool of sun And sank simply down with...
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RED
Jan 31, 20231 min read
BOOK OF REVELATION
You’re like a force field that contains the blaze in me because you learned to grip fire with your hands You’re a phosphoric, Promethean...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Jan 23, 20232 min read
A SERPENT
I want to be the needle in your thigh plowing endlessly the field of your discomfort like a splintery thing. Extract the venom to your...
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RED
Jul 28, 20221 min read
THE EXODUS
The key is to detach and then to reduce it down to the roots, strong solemn things that grip the body, and smooth out the mind in copse...
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RED
May 20, 20221 min read
YEAR OF THE TIGER
I wish that you’d listened to the call of leaves and the purring in trees, but you got distracted, turned away (as they do), and left me...
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RED
Apr 16, 20221 min read
PLUTO IN SCORPIO
Does the Queen of Night shrink from sunlight
And dream between sight
A desert denouement?
To open
Close
And withhold
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RED
Jan 27, 202215 min read
TO HOVER IN
I have a love for beautiful views that began when I was a child. I’d sit on top of the monkey bars or sit in my favorite hemlock tree...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Dec 16, 20218 min read
PHANTOM LIMB
It was a hot day in June. I sat alone in a cemetery and cried. Someone mowed the grass nearby, children played on the street, and...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Oct 27, 20217 min read
GREY
When I was a girl, I could never figure out what color my eyes were. I would stand in front of the mirror, my face barely reaching the...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Oct 25, 20211 min read
THREADBARE LAIR
I go away Are just three words I use sometimes To break the silence of a fragile state I go away, I say, when the moonlight breaks...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Sep 29, 20212 min read
THE QUEEN OF THE ABYSS
I’ve been casting you in lineaments, you vaporous thing. You’re a distorted mirror that bends ‘round my mood. A cold surface of marble...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Sep 15, 20211 min read
DESIRE
Fireworks burst like Dandelion heads I blow at the sky Wishes bloom in red
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Aug 22, 20212 min read
A RESONANCE OF LIGHT
I quiver like the white moth I found perched on my bedroom wall. Bad news flutters in, in traces it seems. First an omen, then an ache,...
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