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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:
Sky Train
A star shot past the constellations, a firework flash, a train light bright before it quickly disappeared to dark. If I could board that...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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Ugh
Each scratchy sheet a blanket to blow in, a sampler of sneezes and watery eyes. The box is now empty, I fill it with wadded and snotty...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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Water
He was a torrent, a deluge, a downpour, a wall of water, a waterfall, unstoppable, untamable. He swept her away, pulled her under. He was...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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Once Upon a Childhood
With open jars, we ran to catch bright breaths of shooting stars and firefly lightning, zig and zag of sparks in air, our oohs and aahs....
Nolcha Fox
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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It’s Valentine’s Day and I Can’t Find You
You’re not in the boxes stored in the garage, filled with clothes and trinkets and whatever could be grabbed out of your room. You are...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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Seamstress
Sleep sews together memory scraps and story snips into a crazy quilt. The stitches are signposts to a secret treasure. I return every...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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Tangled
Sex or loneliness. I couldn’t tell the difference. Tangled as our bodies. Tangled as the sheets. Desire for you or wanting what I...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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Screwy
The wheels loosen, self-unscrew from the rolling laundry bag. Maybe tomorrow is a better day to vibrate to the undertow of purring,...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 14, 20241 min read
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On Missing a Part of the Back of a Tooth
I found it accidentally, my tongue lolling in a bowl of empty, a parking space with no car, a circus with no kids crawling underneath the...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 13, 20241 min read
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Loss or Gain
When you went into the hospital, the autumn leaves were brilliant boats that sailed through the air. Each boat carried a wish, a hope...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Happy New Year, My Spence, from Kate
This is the oldest story, it reruns on late-night TV. You won’t leave her, you won’t leave me, And I can’t leave you, either. We are a...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Salt Lick
I come back for another lick. You were a pillar once. Now you’re a block. I cannot see you through the salt. I imagine you salty. Salt of...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Translator
I want to translate you into something solid. I want to cup your face in my hands, but you are water flowing through my fingers. You are...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Womb with a View
Eye stalks severed with rubber bands and ribbons, her eyes float and swivel to view her curved reflection in the bar mirror. She’s so...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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A Broken Present
My love and I went out to eat as the snow fell to the ground. We saw mistletoe hanging from the café entrance. A capital idea, I said, to...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Terminal
Your mother isn’t dying, she’s just terminal. My mother’s just a terminal. I passed through her and traveled to a separate life. My...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Night Sweats
I wander a desolate landscape each night, searching for you. I want to crawl into your mouth, pull out your words. No, I am in a cave. I...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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All Dolled Up for the Holidays
Events piled on, she had no rest, her mood was dark and surly. Her wardrobe couldn’t stand the swirl, her hair was burnt and frazzled....
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Almost, But Not Quite
I almost understood my purpose here on earth. To be some endangered species running from extinction. I almost remembered your name. You...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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Spill
A rush of words, a pitcher pitched on lip, a splosh, an overrun, an overbrim, I can’t contain what I must say, it gushes from a place I...
Nolcha Fox
Feb 12, 20241 min read
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