“The Bittersweet” by Barbara Harris Leonhard

Dancing in midair

in delirium 

without falling.

What holds me –

A leaf on a tiny thread

of a spider’s weaving?

Am I suspended

by my dizzying 

uncertainty and fear?

Or is it 

a divine umbilical beam

spinning me 

in wild joy?

Is it both – the tether 

of dubiety and divinity?

I cling 

to the fluttering hope

of a spider’s grace.

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Barbara is author of Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (EIF- Experiments in Fiction, 2022). A poem from this collection was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022. Also, on Spillwords, Barbara was voted Author of the Month of October 2021, nominated Author of the Year for 2021, and recognized as a Spillwords Socialite of the Year in 2021. In November 2022, she became Editor for MasticadoresUSA. Barbara enjoys bringing writers together and has been sponsoring open mics and readings on Zoom during the pandemic. 

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