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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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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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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 1, 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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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
- Sep 16, 2020
- 3 min
LOVE LETTERS TO A DYING GOD
PART 1: I’m not sure I’m the obvious choice. I’m not bold or powerful. My brothers were always more forceful than me. My sister was...
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