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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:
Circular Thinking
The train clatters along the tracks. It is a horse on a course. Of course, it races around in circles, never reaching the finish line....
Nolcha Fox
Jul 13, 20241 min read
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Too Late to Mourn
I threw my childhood bones in your incinerator. You lured my younger years with melted sweets, and cannonballs that emptied out the pool....
Nolcha Fox
Jul 12, 20241 min read
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One Drink Too Many
I know my limit. More than one drink is my sad undoing. I admit that I lost count. Last night was too distracting. Now a trio in my head...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 12, 20241 min read
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Impatient
Spring is sleepy after winter, yawning, stretching flowered arms. Daffodils and tulips are the first to show their colors. Green is just...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 12, 20241 min read
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What I Hear
The phone doesn’t ring. The dogs don’t bark. I open the door to the heartbeat of the rain. Tranquility.
Nolcha Fox
Jul 11, 20241 min read
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Poems on Not Seeing Straight (July 2024 Feature)
Bad Trance I have to find the guy who put me under a bad trance. I put the chicken thighs in the oven and proudly set the timer to 28...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 11, 20241 min read
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Poems on Aging (July 2024 Feature)
In Reverse If I could, I would start with white-haired wisdom, creaky bones that long for warmth that fade to rosy cheeks and ample...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 11, 20241 min read
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Smiling
Smiling is odd, especially in church, when the preacher is yelling of hell and how we’ll all burn up from sin. He must wonder what...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 11, 20241 min read
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Dangerous Challenges
Once a furniture goat, our 17-year-old dog falls and can’t get up. With loose knees, arthritic hips, she collapses in a heap. We give her...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 11, 20241 min read
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Poems on Relationships (July 2024 Feature)
Yes or No Will she, won’t she? Back and forth, she weighs her options. Can he provide the life she thinks she wants? He’s a patient man,...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 11, 20241 min read
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Escape
Take me to that place where I’m perpetually thin and I wear designer clothes and one dog didn’t poop behind the designer dining room...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 11, 20241 min read
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Poems on Aging
In Reverse If I could, I would start with white-haired wisdom, creaky bones that long for warmth that fade to rosy cheeks and ample...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 11, 20241 min read
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Beyond Reason
Anxiety is a bellyache of uncertainty. I cannot teach anxiety to count to ten. Anxiety swallows my plans. I cannot tempt anxiety with...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 10, 20241 min read
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Adrift
Time is nothing but wind pushing sunlight and stars across a space I call here. I float, I fly, I rely on what I can’t see to carry me to...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 9, 20241 min read
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Alas
We went to both restaurants in town. All the seats were taken. Alas, we parted company. I ate breakfast at home alone. published in...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 8, 20241 min read
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Such a Crab
Hours move crabwise towards my end, sometimes crabapple sour, sometimes apple pie sweet. Time ignores me when I crab that life’s unfair...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 8, 20241 min read
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Farm to Table
If animals could be the hosts of dinner at the farm, They’d probably lay the table with some foods to cause alarm. Artificial food in...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 8, 20241 min read
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Magic
She keeps her cards close to her chest. She doesn’t want to share her plans until she sets his house of cards on fire, leaving only...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 8, 20241 min read
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Carnival
The flowers on the bush line up to ride the Ferris wheel. They comb their yellow hair with clouds, and black eyes dance with sunshine....
Nolcha Fox
Jul 6, 20241 min read
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Some Things Never Change
Under the moonlight, a caveman stole a woman for his mate. Now ET shows his love by stealing an earthling woman for a hot date. published...
Nolcha Fox
Jul 5, 20241 min read
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