REDMay 67 minQUIET LITTLE THINGThat world wanted to place a label on me and to condemn me to a lifetime of servitude to it....
REDJan 27, 202215 minTO HOVER INI 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...
Rachel Elizabeth DumontDec 16, 20218 minPHANTOM LIMBIt 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...
Rachel Elizabeth DumontOct 27, 20217 minGREYWhen 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...
Rachel Elizabeth DumontJun 7, 20214 minTHE HIGH PLACE PHENOMENONI’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...
Rachel Elizabeth DumontJun 6, 20218 minTHE GRAVESIn the Shenandoah Valley, there’s a chapel that sits next to a farm. And on early Summer mornings it appears through the mist driving...
Rachel Elizabeth DumontFeb 4, 20212 minAMERICANSYou kissed me at the drive-in, all coarse and unrefined. Your rough hands in my fine blonde hair, smoothing out the crook of my arm...
Rachel Elizabeth DumontSep 16, 20203 minLOVE LETTERS TO A DYING GODPART 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...
Rachel Elizabeth DumontMar 10, 20102 minSEA GLASSThere are lakes in my ears. Big, wet, salty ones with mermaids that sing lullabies tonight. Andromeda dances in wrinkled waves that...