The It Girl
She goes to all the fashion shows. She knows what’s in and out. She buys the clothes right off the models in all the finest shops. Even...
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This website includes my (growing) collection of poems published on Medium, Substack, and elsewhere, starting from the day my mother died, November 1, 2023, to the present.
For a complete listing of links to my poems and other cool stuff:
Nolcha Fox
May 11 min read
Through the Pain
How did I get through all the days of pain that shook my mother’s frame as her shadow detached, stitch by stitch to slip outside and surf...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 302 min read
Swedish Death Cleaning, Grave Markers, Purses, and Way Too Much Yarn
I’ve always been a minimalist. Minimalizing was an every-6-month cleanout obsession when my husband and I lived in an...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 302 min read
Migraine Sleuthing
I was not correctly diagnosed with migraines until I saw my doctor for what I thought was a very painful sinus infection. My doctor, a...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 291 min read
Forgiveness
He shakes her, breaks her. Still she stands, forgiving. She sprouts, he pouts. Her flowers bloom. He says he’s sorry. Her leaves turn...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 271 min read
Time Isn’t Where I Need it
If this day was a quarry abandoned by dirt and the machines that displaced it, the hours would suffer a geology of absence and an error...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 273 min read
Trying to Explain Migraines to the Uninitiated
I know that it’s very difficult for people who’ve never had a migraine to understand how debilitating migraines can be. Migraines are...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 261 min read
Not a Morning to Aspire to Anything
My wildest dream woke up this morning, put on her robe, opened the refrigerator remembered she forgot to buy coffee, opened the curtains,...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 251 min read
Knockers and Kickers
You can tell how a girl does life by what she wears. Some girls like Scarlett Johansson, she’s a knockout in lingerie. Guys say she has...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 241 min read
Bewildered Bees
Daffodils have jumped the fence, trumpeting their brilliant notes. Bees dance up the yellow throats wondering at this new noise. Wind...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 221 min read
Weird Fish in a Dead-End Pool
In turquoise pools warmed by sun and piss, I splashed and churned, looking to escape monotony and scripted hopeless life that led to...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 211 min read
You Didn’t Ask Her to Join You
Grief pulls up a chair, uninvited, drinks your Cadillac margarita, eats your Godiva chocolate cheesecake. She spills red wine and...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 211 min read
The Ugly Duckling and the Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf saw the Ugly Duckling swimming in the lake. He was hungry, really hungry. When she waddled ashore, he chased her to her...
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