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. Wa
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RED
Jun 12 min read
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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RED
Feb 231 min read
SULTANA
In frost covered fields
With garnets congealed
A pomegranate drips
Scattered seeds amongst the star-lit field
A twilight blooms
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Feb 1, 20232 min read
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, 20231 min read
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, 20232 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...
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RED
Jul 28, 20221 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...
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RED
May 20, 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...
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RED
Apr 16, 20221 min read
PLUTO IN SCORPIO
Does the Queen of Night shrink from sunlight
And dream between sight
A desert denouement?
To open
Close
And withhold
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Oct 25, 20211 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...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Sep 29, 20212 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...
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Rachel Elizabeth Dumont
Aug 22, 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,...
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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 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
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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