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RED
- Jul 28
- 1 min
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
- 1 min
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
- May 10
- 1 min
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
- Apr 27
- 1 min
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....
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RED
- Apr 16
- 1 min
PLUTO IN SCORPIO
Every time I tap on the surface the thing goes doubling back In a jab! jab! motion Then back To secrete that potent brew Upon the stinger...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
- Feb 22
- 2 min
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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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
- Feb 10
- 2 min
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
- Jan 27
- 15 min
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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
DESIRE
Fireworks burst like Dandelion heads I blow at the sky Wishes bloom in red
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
- Aug 22, 2021
- 2 min
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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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
- Aug 18, 2021
- 2 min
DARK MATTER
I believe in the stories I hear of the adventures you’ve had each night when you drift off to sleep. You’re a sailor, a pirate, a deep...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
- Jul 31, 2021
- 1 min
THE CRUCIBLE
I’ve been lingering at the edge for awhile. And in spite of things. In spite. In spite. Despite things. To spite things. I continue in...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
- Jun 30, 2021
- 2 min
THE MENACE
I want to drag you down and drag you under like a lion drags its prey. I feel the shadows forming in my eyes. And lions hunt at night,...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
- Jun 7, 2021
- 4 min
THE HIGH PLACE PHENOMENON
I’m sitting on the floor of my bedroom with the cars murmuring outside and I sit to collect within myself the emotion. At night I lay it...
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