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Writer's pictureNolcha Fox

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 minutes.

When the timer beeped,

I opened the oven,

to find I hadn’t

turned it on.


***

Nothing Is Straight


I don’t see straight 

lines anywhere.

Everything is curved.

The earth is round.

So is the horizon.

My body is a mess

of curves upon 

curves upon curves.

Even my hunger

travels in circles.

Do you want

to pull in for some

fast food?


***

I Couldn’t See Until Now


The night hid behind fog, buildings, streetlights, and traffic lights. I’d never seen celestial bodies shine in the sky.


One evening during a power outage, my head hit a shelf in the dark. When I could see again, my eyes were full of stars.



published in Medusa's Kitchen

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kuldiga.1
Aug 20

1st one hilarious!


2nd one actually quite seductive, feminine in its forms, a fun narrator


3rd masterful


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