Dear John
I know you do all that you can for the environment. You recycle, plant some trees, eat sustainably. You thought you would save some gas...
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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.
For a complete listing of links to my poems and other cool stuff:
Nolcha Fox
Jul 41 min read
Unfinished
Power feeds his need for speed. Warning signs are better crushed. He’d rather ride the fender of the anger vrooming, looming. He only...
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Nolcha Fox
Jul 41 min read
Alien Assault
The ants invaded with intent, and left us in a pickle. They used the dills as food boards to pillage our nice picnic. I hope we don’t...
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Nolcha Fox
Jul 21 min read
Junk in a Trunk
My new house has an attic. It’s filled with many things that prior owners left behind or wanted to forget. Every trunk a treasure of old...
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Nolcha Fox
Jul 11 min read
Undying Passion
I don’t lust for money, sex, fame, power, or legacy. I yearn for Italian food I ate when I was young. Pizza, lasagne, fettuccini, Italian...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 301 min read
What a Mess
Bubble wrap may be the trick to keep my days together. I’m unhinged, new cracks in parts I didn’t know I had. I was born as damaged...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 291 min read
Doorways to What I Remember of You
In the end, I suppose, defeat is inevitable. The hours are a tide that floods the rooms of jewelry and letters and paintings stuffed...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 291 min read
Which Came First?
It really doesn’t matter who was first or who was last. According to the camera footage, they came together. To a party they weren’t...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 291 min read
Impossible Silence
The lips don’t move, crisis stuns The crows caw, but no one hears Night falls, leaden moon Shadows crawl with gritted teeth across the...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 291 min read
My Haunted First Car
Every time I sat in my car, something broke or fell off. Oh, did I tell you about the death rattle no mechanic could fix? My father...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 281 min read
It’s Somebody’s Fault
I finally sit after serving everyone breakfast The cat drank my coffee The dog steals all the chocolate and drinks my coffee while I...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 281 min read
Son of a Beach
Sun and surf are in my blood. I’m at the beach, and here I’ll stay. My blanket and umbrella show my territory for the day. My surfboard’s...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 271 min read
Lonely Hours
Where do they skulk away to die, those hours, lonely, useless, wasted? Some stop for one last drink to fortify the will to leave chalk...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 251 min read
In a Single Breath
Perched upon a purple flower, butterfly with golden wings rimmed black, a stained glass window for a church I cannot enter. Slowly...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 251 min read
Wishful Thinking
In a haze of smoke and booze and workdays of complete dejection, you think you’ve found the perfect woman who can give your life a new...
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Nolcha Fox
Jun 241 min read
Up in Flames
You can’t contain her anger. She’s a stew that overflows onto the burner, sets your house of cards ablaze. She’s a raging wildfire. She...
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