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Jun 1
2 min

ORACLE

Because I thought I saw Jesus within the pulsating wall A prophetic drawl Pathetic bawling Incessantly crawling back beneath the...

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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

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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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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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

Mar 23, 2021
1 min

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, 2021
2 min

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, 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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