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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Aug 18, 20212 min read
DARK MATTER
And gold drips through fingertips
—coagulated sunlight—
soft globs of me spilling out everywhere.
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Jul 31, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20214 min read
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
Jun 6, 20218 min read
THE GRAVES
In the Shenandoah Valley, there’s a chapel that sits next to a farm. And on early Summer mornings it appears through the mist driving...
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RED
May 24, 20215 min read
A Tea Shop In Brooklyn
In New York City, Summer comes early. As the sun comes out on early May mornings so do tourists, swarming the streets of Manhattan like...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Mar 23, 20211 min read
INCUBATION
This black night, which envelops me—I cling to the shroud So that I may remain Awhile longer Unexposed Before pale blue light swells...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Feb 4, 20212 min read
AMERICANS
You 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...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Sep 15, 20203 min read
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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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Mar 10, 20102 min read
SEA GLASS
There are lakes in my ears. Big, wet, salty ones with mermaids that sing lullabies tonight. Andromeda dances in wrinkled waves that...
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