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THE ARTISTS
To scrape beneath the surface brings with it its own mortality. To bleed and feel a fire made flesh. Ruby colored pulp trickles downward,...

RED
Mar 1, 20231 min read


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...

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Jan 23, 20232 min read


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...

RED
Jul 28, 20221 min read


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...

RED
May 20, 20221 min read


PHANTOM LIMB
It 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 Dumont
Dec 16, 20218 min read


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...

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Oct 25, 20211 min read


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...

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Sep 29, 20212 min read


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,...

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Aug 22, 20212 min read


DARK MATTER
And gold drips through fingertips
—coagulated sunlight—
soft globs of me spilling out everywhere.

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Aug 18, 20212 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...

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Jul 31, 20211 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,...

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Jul 1, 20212 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...

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Jun 7, 20214 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...

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Feb 4, 20212 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...

Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Sep 16, 20203 min read
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