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:

https://nolchafox2.wixsite.com/blog

Nolcha Fox

May 6, 20241 min read

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...

Nolcha Fox

May 2, 20241 min read

Begonias

I have a date with pink begonias. I didn’t write down where or why she would be seen with someone schlubby, grubby, nondescript like me....

Nolcha Fox

May 1, 20241 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 30, 20242 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 30, 20241 min read

How Big

When I stand under the canopy of starlight and moonlight, ageless, I am very small. When I stand over the rainbow canopy of spring...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 30, 20242 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 29, 20241 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 28, 20241 min read

Snubbed

I give you everything I have. I lavish money on you, show you off, you are the talk wherever you appear. I tell you of the oohs and ahs,...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 28, 20241 min read

Confusion

We walk and run through life confused, not knowing what the other means. Simple words, hello, goodbye mistaken for their opposites....

Nolcha Fox

Apr 28, 20241 min read

I Knew

Before my brother called me, I knew my heart had changed. It had a hole, someone missing, I knew who it was. I knew it had to happen, but...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 27, 20241 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 27, 20243 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 26, 20241 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,...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 25, 20241 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 25, 20241 min read

Eau de Oh

If I could find a way to spray the dawn into my hair, I’d do it. If I could find a way to spritz pink tulips on my lips, you know I’d do...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 24, 20241 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 23, 20241 min read

Upside

I’ve lost my house keys, car keys, wallet without money ‘cause I lost my passcode. I lost my sweater and the sweatshirt to replace that...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 22, 20241 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 21, 20241 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...

Nolcha Fox

Apr 21, 20241 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...