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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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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RED
May 6, 20237 min read
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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RED
Mar 1, 20231 min read
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,...
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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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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
Jan 27, 202215 min read
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, 20217 min read
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, 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
Sep 15, 20211 min read
DESIRE
Fireworks burst like Dandelion heads I blow at the sky Wishes bloom in red
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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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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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