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RED
- May 6
- 7 min
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
- Apr 15
- 14 min
SILENT SISTERS
When asked “what do women want?” I can only speak for myself. And the truth is, I don’t want much. I would like a piano and a rose...
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RED
- Mar 1
- 1 min
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 23
- 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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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
- Feb 1
- 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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RED
- Jan 31
- 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
- Jan 23
- 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
- Dec 22, 2022
- 2 min
MUSINGS AT 3 AM
I’m sitting on the couch with nothing but a blanket wrapped around me. An Hermes scarf is draped dramatically over the pillows next to...
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RED
- Jul 28, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Apr 16, 2022
- 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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RED
- Jan 27, 2022
- 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
- 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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