Rachel Dacus, Poet & Writer

Rachel Dacus writes about love, family, history, and art, with a touch of magic. Eight novels, five poetry collections, and counting. Poem readings here. 

“Rachel Dacus’ poetry sings and celebrates the body and spirit in form and function, freedom and flight.” —Jeff Santosuosso, Editor-in-Chief, Panoply.

From "Prayers for Everywhere": 
Prayers for everything the soul must reluctantly 
or passionately kiss: rain-running gutters, 
a pebble in the shoe, the silt gritty 
on your ocean-washed lips. 
Because what is a prayer 
but a laugh that can't be formed 
in letters, but only heard 
in that place that, praised, lights up.