"Misfit" by Nolcha Fox

I’m an eccentric oddball,

not even my attire fits in.

I dress in the dark

in my wardrobe, doors shut

and eyes closed.

Groping in shadow,

I put on whatever I touch.

incongruous colors and patterns.

Clothes on backwards. Or upside down.

This is my solemn confession:

I’m horribly shy.

Now my secret is unveiled.

Now I am out of the closet.

Nolcha (she/her) 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, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.

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