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

Feb 111 min read

Another Amaryllis

I sag each year I stop watering the amaryllis to let it sleep, encourage it to sprout red flowers. Each year I wonder if this is its...

Nolcha Fox

Feb 111 min read

My Muse

My muse is gone, she left a note that she went shopping with the girls. I hope I didn’t send her on another bender. My writing might be...

Nolcha Fox

Feb 111 min read

Outcast

I’d rather be an outcast, living on the edge, and cast my thoughts out to the gloom for birds to catch and fish to eat, than waste my...

Nolcha Fox

Feb 111 min read

Neighbors

Every night, hyena laughs from Rose, my upstairs neighbor, shake the chandelier. I’m certain Joe, across the hall, slithers, twists the...

Nolcha Fox

Feb 111 min read

Ribs

God knew what was good. He baked a fall-off-the-bone rib from Adam, baked it slow, so slow, Adam could sleep through the entire Super...