Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver

Having just published a book of poetry collaborations, Too Much Fun To Be Legal (See below), Nolcha Fox and I are up to no good with new collaborations. Who knows? Maybe we can publish another book of poetry collaborations in 2025!

The Dance 

Time and Space do a jig, 
surfing gravity’s waves 
into black holes.
Dark Mother hides, 
sighs in the sunless sun.
Hangs a sign, “No Vacancy”
on the matrix door.

Time has no time 
for expanding Space.
She has deadlines,
deadlines, deadlines.
If Space expects
to jig with Time,
he’ll have to make
an appointment.

Dark Mother wants Space 
and Time to wed. Wove a gown 
bejeweled with stars. The gown’s train, 
straight as an arrow. Always facing 
Tomorrow, tasked to bear the train 
like a dead weight. Tomorrow, always 
the bridesmaid, never the bride.

Forget the wedding.
It’s too expensive,
and nobody is happy
with the arrangements.
Tomorrow is an uninvited guest,
a dead weight.
Toss him on a train,
with a one-way ticket
to outer Space.

But Time surprises everyone. 
Throws her wedding ring 
back into Saturn’s orbit. 
Jumps out of her gilded train. 
Elopes with Tomorrow despite 
the gravity of their union.

My verses are in italics, and Nolcha’s are the rest.

Copyright © 2024 Nolcha Fox and Barbara Leonhard

Check out our new book of poetry collaborations.
Too Much Fun To Be Legal (Garden of Neuro, 2024).

Available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats.

Nolcha Fox’s poems have been curated in print and online journals. Her poetry books are available on Amazon and Dancing Girl Press. Nominee for 2023 Best of The Net, 2024 Best of the Net Anthology. Nominee for a 2023 Pushcart Prize. Editor for Entropy. Visual editor for Chewers & Masticadores.

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Barbara Harris Leonhard’s poetry is curated in various literary magazines and anthologies. She’s also written a best-selling poetry collection Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (Experiments in Fiction, 2022), which is about her relationship with her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s. Barbara’s poetry has received awards and honors from Well-Versed 2021 and Spillwords Press. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Trending Poets named her Poet of the Year 2023. Some of her poems have been translated into Italian, Albanian, and Chinese. This year, Barbara and Nolcha Fox will launch a new book, Too Much Fun to Be Legal, with The Garden of Neuro Institute. Barbara is also the Editor for MasticadoresUSA. She lives in Mid-Missouri with her husband and their cat Jasper, who refuses to go on drives to count deer. You can follow her on her blog, Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver.