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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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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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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

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

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

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 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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