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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.
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For a complete listing of links to my poems and other cool stuff:
Blinded
She didn’t see him as he was, she only heard his words, misunderstanding cruelty for everlasting love. He said she was the only one he...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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It Is What It Is
Is your kiss invitation or a snare? I don’t know. It is what it is. You say you want me. You don’t say for what. How can I trust you? It...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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Fragrance
The wind opens the cafe door, waltzes in with night blooming jasmine, dressed in pink-drenched clouds. She stirs a latte with a fingertip...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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Burglar
The dark of night brings restless thoughts, reminders of regrets and wandering what-ifs. Exhausted by this spinning sphere of nothing...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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Lucky
Lucky played the numbers game, he tried to stay on top. He heard a crime boss thought he cheated. He skipped town before he drowned in...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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Show-Off
Hurricanes fly from her hat, they land as summer flowers. She taps her cufflinks with her wand and seas become white water. Scarves turn...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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Four Silly Micro-Poems
Duh! I boiled an egg, stepped in gum. What else should I do to write about a hard-boiled gumshoe? *** Deep I look like I am deep in...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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The Wealth We Couldn’t Find
She didn’t have much, that’s what we thought. The more we looked, the more we found: Investments squirreled away from prying eyes, a...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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Dancing the Hora
I wish I could remember Ariel and Sarah, holding hands and smiling as they danced the hora, at their children’s wedding. I wish I could...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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All Empty
He pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. The gun was empty, just like his life. There had to be something. A reason for waking up...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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Concert
They pile against the fence, anxious to join the crowd inside. I open the gate, and they jostle to get in first. They circle the stage,...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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How to Save a Life
Poems are Life Savers. Little ring candies, sweet to the taste. Or a bigger, floating ring to throw to a drowning poet. Unless the poet...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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Night Stalkings
I court the moon in fishnet stockings, mink, and buxom breasts a-heave in velvet. How I want the velvet of the night to hold me in its...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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Fixing Broken Things
How often I puzzle how to put things back together, how to make the splinters and mismatched edges and chunks of time hold until the next...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 16, 20241 min read
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What to Do With a Wandering Spirit
I live in perpetual conflict. My spirit longs for somewhere else. My body doesn’t want to leave the house. My spirit wonders how it would...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 15, 20241 min read
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Waking Up to Life
The counter is littered with crumbs and spills, The refrigerator door handle is grody, crusted with something I don’t recognize. Brown...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 15, 20241 min read
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Silent Migration
Dark shadows wrapped in trench coats under black umbrellas that catch the wind and fly, rippling blackbirds rising up to mountain peaks...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 15, 20241 min read
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Butterfly Retrospective
You were a butterfly. A flitter. A careless flash of sparkle. No thoughts of what you left behind. No sense of any harm you caused the...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 15, 20241 min read
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Music in Her Hair
She lives above me, sings with birds and records from the 60s. Vinyl isn’t final now, replaced with buds she wears beneath her hair that...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 15, 20241 min read
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Time Is Too Fat to Fly
Time doesn’t want to fly. She wants to sit down and eat. I cook her a nice meal. She sucks it down in a couple of seconds. Time pulls all...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 15, 20242 min read
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