Rachel Lightfoot

Joined April 2018

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Bio

I like to play with words.

Poems, mostly.

https://rachellightfoot.wixsite.com/my-site

Stories (35/0)

Too Much Girl
Too much to handle. Too much to contain. Too much of a much-ness. Too selfish and too vain.
By Rachel Lightfoot10 months ago in Poets
Foul-fingered Girl. Content Warning.
She crept up to my banquet, Stole right from my plate Whetted her lips, widened her eyes And plunged her foul fingers straight into my cake.
By Rachel Lightfoot11 months ago in Poets
Yellow Stickered Souls
As you glide through the supermarket aisles of human souls, swiping right for yes and left for no, you whet your lips and ask yourself , what's on offer today at the human buffet?
By Rachel Lightfoot2 years ago in Poets
Blood Eagle
To break free from rock bottom You must first look up Call the mountains down to meet you Raise your screams from the mud.
By Rachel Lightfoot2 years ago in Poets
Reflections
I've been rummaging for meaning within knicker drawers thumbing over sacred pages tiptoeing backwards through chrysalis stages.
By Rachel Lightfoot3 years ago in Poets
A Portrait of Dennis Knoll
There is a place where the fern bends and the heather swoons beyond the scent of the view. Thistles wolf-whistle
By Rachel Lightfoot3 years ago in Poets
Things to be Held in Check
There are so many things I wish to say to you, paint you a picture in words: A landslide of kaleidoscopic fragments that make up the shape of you in my mind’s eye.
By Rachel Lightfoot3 years ago in Poets
Too Much Girl Interview: Helena Logah
I’m a working-class poet with a creative dream, and in 2018 I wrote a poem called ‘Too Much Girl’ (you can read all of it here.)
By Rachel Lightfoot3 years ago in Humans
The Showgirl
Ruby red lips and green eyes lined with flicks colours abound, pavonine and proud. A flick of her wrist as the feather fans twist
By Rachel Lightfoot3 years ago in Poets
Small Dick Energy
Here's the thing: Once you step out of that box, They'll call you mad. They'll call you sad. Hormonal. Hysterical.
By Rachel Lightfoot3 years ago in Poets
Easy Bake Gingerbread Cookies
I’d like to say that this delicious recipe for gingerbread has been passed down through my family for generations. I’d like to say that this recipe is a Christmas favourite, a family tradition. I’d like to say that we all gather around the kitchen in December and bake these cookies together with warm smiles and….
By Rachel Lightfoot4 years ago in Feast
The Tree of Knowledge/Ouroboros
I always arrive with my heart on my sleeve, in anticipation of an inevitable trampling, it’s almost like a masochistic need –
By Rachel Lightfoot4 years ago in Poets

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