By Nolcha Fox
PROMPT—No one noticed ...
Nobody noticed
your impossible
red hair, a flag
waving away
your 70 years,
the last maple leaf
defying the wind.
But I did.
Nobody noticed
the polio limp
you conceal
with bravado
and braces,
a vine disregarding
its trellis.
But I did.
Nobody noticed
that you are my hero.
But I did.
Nolcha Fox has always written, starting with poop and crayons on the walls. Her poems were published in WyoPoets News, Duck Head Journal, Ancient Paths, Dark Entries, The Red Lemon Review, Agape Review, Bullshit Literary Magazine, Storyteller’s Refrain, Wilder Literature, Paddler Press, the 2022 WyoPoets chapbook Emergence, Gone Lawn, Levatio’s first issue Serenity, Spirit Fire Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Clock Radio, and Discretionary Love. Nolcha's chapbook, My Father's Ghost Hates Cats: Poetry for Stumbling Through Life, is available on Amazon. She writes from Buffalo, Wyoming.