Celebrate the release of Too Much Fun To Be Legal with Nolcha Fox and Barbara Leonhard!
Garden of Neuro Book Launch Event Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2024
TIME: 10:30 am, Eastern; 9:30 am Central; 8:30 am Mountain; 7:30 am Pacific
WHERE: ZOOM
Register HERE to get Your Zoom Link: Join Us Live for the Poetry Book Reading and Release Party! We’ll send you the Zoom link a few days before and on the day of the event.
Enjoy a poem from Too Much Fun To Be Legal. Barbara’s lines are italicized, and Nolcha’s are the rest.
Diminishing
I grow shorter as I age.
High heels don’t help
to reach that shelf.
I’ll have to call
my husband.
He’s a foot taller
than me.
Otherwise, I’m a monkey
scaling shelves at the supermarket -
or using the grabber tool I was given
after my hip replacement -
to snag containers.
Supermarket shelves fell down,
last time I tried to reach the Spam.
Canned goods, bottles, scattered,
shattered down Aisle 3 and 4.
Now the market manager
won’t let me shop without escort.
I just ride electric carts,
let someone else
do all the work.
Not just a monkey,
but a NASCAR wannabe.
I’m told I took off
at high speed
toward Aisle 6, toppling
a kiosk of cans of pumpkin
and evaporated milk,
quickly scattering
a queue of shoppers
and their carts laden with food
for Thanksgiving dinner.
Getting shorter doesn’t mean
that I’m any less
dangerous.
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.
Websites: https://bit.ly/3bT9tYu and https://nolchafox2.wixsite.com/nolcha-s-written-wor/blog
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolchafox/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nolcha.fox/
Medium: @nolchafox_14571
Substack: @nolchafox
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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 launched 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.
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