My gratitude to Irma Kurti for publishing her translation of my poem “The Bittersweet” into Albanian for Gazeta Destinacione.
Follow this link to see her translation.
https://gazetadestinacioni.al/barbara-harris-leonhard-shba-perktheu-irma-kurti/
The Bittersweet
A leaf dances in midair
without falling.
What holds it—
A tiny thread
of a spider’s weaving?
Am I suspended
by my dizzy, twirling?
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.
(First appeared in Durgapur Review)
I created a YouTube video of this poem. Ken Gierke helped with sound.
© Barbara Leonhard
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 
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