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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:
Leaving the Leaves
Summer slips slowly to yellows and reds. Chokecherry trees scatter purple goodbyes. Aspen leaves wither and crunch underfoot. Mornings I...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 11, 20241 min read
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Haze
I see the air I inhale, forest-fire smoke that turns the flowers to pale haloes ready, waiting while I bend and drop the weight of you...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 10, 20241 min read
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For Autumn
Soon the lawnmower will depart to safety of the shed. The hoses will wind around their wheels and hide until next year. The fire bush...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 10, 20241 min read
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The Myth of Belonging
I take a mental snapshot of this building I call home. We thought it was the place that we could die for. And die in. We built it ...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 10, 20241 min read
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Over the Limit
I park in a no-park zone to gather the baggage of bones I left behind when I rode to another life. So much to weigh me down. How little I...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Gear Shift
Coffee is calling. As I make a fresh pot, I see wild rabbits gobbling up grass below trees with leaves turning yellow for fall. The wind...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Our Mothers
Our mothers know time as a face on the band around their wrists. They know seasons as months they tear off the wall. They know love as a...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Blown Away
My blues are brown from smoky air, depressed by stillness, nothing moves. My heart was blown away by breezes from a slamming door. Please...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Fall
Fighting the rake, I’d rather play in all the leaves that fall. Let my husband do the work. Leave me all the fun. inspired by:...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 8, 20241 min read
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The Absence of Your Presence
Your presence is no longer present. Although I sometimes think I hear you whisper in the shadows of my mind. Photographs and shadows fade...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 8, 20241 min read
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So Shiny
She makes a path of shiny seconds as she flies through the hours. A path to take her home in case this moment disappoints. But jackdaws...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 7, 20241 min read
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You don't think
You don’t think about what you say. I don’t say what I think. The perfect marriage. published in Five Fleas: https://fivefleas.blogspot.c...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 7, 20241 min read
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Timely
I’ve always been tacky in choices of watches tack/tech/tick/tock/tuck I might need some tech support for my new Fitbit...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 6, 20241 min read
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Numbers Game
I never could see patterns in the numbers on the page. My brain simply collapsed, deflated, needed oxygen. But I can hear the patterns...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 6, 20241 min read
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Grief Starts Small
She is a tiny thing at first, a mouse that crawls through holes in walls, eluding baits of midnight phone calls that I know will...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 6, 20241 min read
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Tabloid Tableau
Pretty faces grace the tabloids, They’re so crucial. I ignore them, check the weather, shred their kissers for kitty litter. the tableau...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 5, 20241 min read
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Grass
Once summer’s grass was a barefoot delight. I felt it between toes and munched on its sweetness. Now fall is peeping through leaves ...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 5, 20241 min read
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Rummage
I rummage through plans that fall into the wash when my wants disagree with my musts. My plans run with red ink from things I should do,...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 5, 20241 min read
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"Too Much Fun to Be Legal"/"Words into Elephants" Book Launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il0lJIZh_XE&t=1s Also available via: https://nolcha.substack.com/p/double-launch-video and...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 4, 20241 min read
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Too Cozy
I’m insulated, wrapped in jacket that confines my arms, protects me from the swings I bring upon me when I’m inappropriate. In the...
Nolcha Fox
Sep 3, 20241 min read
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