Secret Friend
No one can see Lily. She’s my secret friend. She’s ten years old with waist-length braids, and two front missing teeth. Lily speaks three...
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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
Apr 191 min read
Sticky Stuff
When I step in bubble gum, I have no need to swear. If the hooks and eyes that keeps my girls together break apart, that gum can hold my...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 191 min read
Little Boat
I’m floating in a little boat. I cannot fight the waves that knock me to and fro. I pull the top planks from the sides and use them as...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 181 min read
A Moment of Solitude
Nothing better than green tea when the snow is falling.
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 171 min read
Something Woke Me
The midnight hour was quiet. Yet I felt the urge to leave a warm bed, see what might be happening. Walkway glistening, I held my hand...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 171 min read
Some Mornings
Before my feet find fuzzy slippers, before my body leaves the bed, before my eyelids flutter open, I feel lost, unbelonged, a flotsam...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 161 min read
Endless Horizons
When the light is just right, there is no up or down, no ground, no sky, No worries, No decisions to be made. Just breathe, just breathe...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 161 min read
What Matters
No quality is the time we spend trying to get to all the places that probably don’t matter anyway. Places of no quality we have to go to...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 141 min read
Just Like You
Since I found you on the floor without a pulse, you’ve been replaced by someone else who looks just like you. She’s knitted me some socks...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 141 min read
No Time to Wander
I fell out of bed too late for breakfast, pants on backward, one shoe black, one shoe blue, jumped in the car. Uh oh. Freeway exit...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 131 min read
Running Barefoot
I have to feel the grass, the dirt, the muddy grub, the sinking sand between my toes to know I’m not a feather floating disconnected from...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 121 min read
Small Secrets
They never asked me what I knew. They thought me slightly deaf and daft. They didn’t know what small secrets I hid from their eyes until...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 121 min read
The Creams of Your Dreams
I couldn’t imagine what creams could bring back the dreams that I lost as I struggled through life. Could Disco Biscuit teach me to...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 111 min read
For Amanda, With Love
Be careful what you call me. I will give it back. If you call me Bubble Butt I’ll blow it up your, well, you know what I mean. Amanda is...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 91 min read
Whatever that Is
It’s a slippery thing on a plastic laminated card with numbers I can’t remember, like the numbers on the phone I leave behind on the...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 81 min read
Endless Road
You beside me, dirty blond curls dancing in the top-down convertible breeze. The Pacific Ocean is a blue beckoning on one side, cliffs a...
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