Floating Over the Fence
I dream of floating over the backyard fence. High enough to see the neighborhood kids splash in the pool next door. A party I wasn’t...
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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 71 min read
The Beauty of Lastingness
When I started to make decent money, I promised myself to buy nice kitchenware items that would last a long time. Since that promise,...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 71 min read
Clipped Wings
I’m not one to venture far. I like my life the same. But I feel my wings are clipped. Sometimes, I long to be a bird that migrates...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 61 min read
After All These Years
Sometimes love is a clean kitchen when I wake up in the morning. Sometimes love is you asking how to do the laundry. Sometimes love is...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 51 min read
Time Doesn’t Look Good Without Her Makeup
Time was beautiful once. She took me by the hand, ran with me through the surf, promised me endless summer days. Time had to work on her...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 41 min read
A Woman Is Swallowed by a Snake in Taiwan
I am a gift you don’t know how to open. Best leave me alone, you’ll find yourself inside. I am the snake in every woman, The woman in...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 41 min read
A Certain Stranger
I tried to open sleepy eyes and look into the mirror. A bad idea before the coffee hit my fainting heart. I saw a woman unfamiliar, no...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 41 min read
I May Never Get Here
I’d love to plop upon a bank and watch a river roar without a care if I get wet or if I start to sneeze from mold and springtime...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 31 min read
Monday, Forget Monday
Monday, Monday, so bad for me. I hoped to complete all my tasks, have some wine at the end of the day. No such luck. By Tuesday, the...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 21 min read
My Dreams Lasted Only as Long as the Curlers
How many hours of my life did I sit with my hair rolled in curlers, my scalp pulled and hot and itchy as a plastic cap billowed with warm...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 21 min read
A Lick of True Love
Why look to movies or to books for models of true love? Why think a wandering eye will bring the joy that you require? Don’t say yes to...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 11 min read
One Ticked-Off Little Robin
A soggy robin glared at me through kitchen sliding door. His feathers were white-frosted by a cold and sodden snow. No song he sang to...
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Nolcha Fox
Apr 11 min read
Waiting for You
Every night, I think I’ll see you like you were, before the pain, when we would chat about the ocean wind that hit your face when you...
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Nolcha Fox
Mar 311 min read
Lists List As They Shift
The items in lists shift in import, or fall off from boredom or cause other items to crawl on, to cling on as lists lean towards duties...
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Nolcha Fox
Mar 301 min read
Shouting Storm
The midnight sky is curdled groan as storm appears. Horizon blotched in gray, it roars. No still of night, no hush, this rush of air and...
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Nolcha Fox
Mar 301 min read
Spring Chorus
It’s hard to think of singing when the sky is gray and rain pours down. Even birds are cowering beneath the flower petals. But listen to...
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Nolcha Fox
Mar 281 min read
Just Like That
Among the other oddities, a sapling planted too close to the house. The owners didn’t care if roots would break through pipes. They...
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Nolcha Fox
Mar 271 min read
Something Has to Get Us Out of Bed
There must be more to life than grocery lists and television, over-the-fence gossip, traffic jams, deadlines. There must be a reward more...
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Nolcha Fox
Mar 251 min read
Wallflower
I’d rather be a wildflower than pasted to the wall with all the other pre-teen girls giggling at the boys who punched each other 30 feet...
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