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Dmitri Derodel

Dmitri Derodel is a poet, songwriter, essayist, and Scholastic Gold Medalist. He’s been published in The Best Teen Writing of 2020, Navigating the Maze 2020, Brown State of Mind, Bitter Melon Magazine, Rising Pheonix Press, and the Dutch magazine OneWorld.

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In Which the Second Sex Scene of Moonlight Makes the Cut

by Dmitri Derodel

Your chest is a jug of orange juice, a gasoline pump, and this prayer is lazy, just as it should be. You rise as if it were for you (and maybe it is). Your legs are now the rhinestone in the navel of a belly dancer as a pair of diamonds watch on, gaze locked,

Summer 2020

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Dmitri Derodel

By Dmitri Derodel

In Which the Second Sex Scene of Moonlight Makes the Cut

Summer 2020

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