Category: Poetry
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“Homeless Woman Applying Makeup on the Patio Outside Eatwell Grocery” up on MasticadoresCanada!
My Poem “Homeless Woman Applying Makeup on the Patio Outside Eatwell Grocery” was published on MasticadoresCanada as a reply to the submission call on the theme of “Women.” My gratitude to Editor Ray Whitaker. Homeless Woman Applying Make-Up on the Patio Outside Eatwell GroceryColor-stained hair, yellow as butter over crisp…
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AI Robots as Best-Selling Artists?!
In my research for my poetry collection The Lost Book of Zeroth, I have several poems about AI Robot Sophia, a creation of Hanson Robotics. Believe it or not, she was made a citizen of Saudi Arabia and the Ambassador for tourism in Abu Dhabi, the Capital of the United…
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More poems from the Anthology “Social Possibilities: Poetic Voices of Hope”
This week, I did a Barb’s Wordy Blurbs about Prolific Pulse Press’s new anthology “Social Possibilities: Poetic Voices of Hope”. I also have a Tanka poem and a Puente poem in the anthology. I used the anthology “Sunflower Tanka: An Anthology of Tanka, Tanka Prose, & Experimental Tanka”, compiled by…
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Sin-Eaters
A sin-eater is someone paid to eat a small ritualistic meal representing the sins of the deceased. By doing so, the person takes on those sins. What happens to this diner? Does s/he become a vessel containing the sins of the departed, who can now enter heaven cleansed of wrongdoing?…
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It’s All about Death, Really
The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region. Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of InnocenceI am ready to shed the old clothes,the tatters that hang off my heart that I thought held some comfort but that no longer fit me.I lay them out for display. Touch each one,…
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“Payne Comes for Tea”
Nolcha Fox and I wrote this poem together. Our collaborations turned into Too Much Fun To Be Legal (Garden of Neuro Publishing, 2024). This feels like a good time for some light-hearted words.Payne Comes for TeaUninvited again.Slaps my ailing knee.“How’s it goin’?Not up and about yet?How ‘bout a jog around…
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“The Bittersweet”: A World Traveler
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 BittersweetA leaf dances in midairwithout falling.What holds it—A tiny threadof a spider’s weaving?Am I suspendedby my dizzy, twirling? Uncertainty and fear?Or is…
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“Instituto Terra” is up on Chewers by Masticadores!
Thank you, Editor Nolcha Fox, for publishing my poem! Here is the note about the poem, which first appeared on Silver Birch Press. Because of our environmental crisis, I wanted to give this poem more visibility. The poem was inspired by the story of a couple in Brazil who regrew…
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On Father’s Day 2025
Sunday, June 15, was a quiet day. Because I wanted to find a biography written by some relatives about my paternal great grandmother, whom we called Sweet Grandma, I was rifling through papers and came upon letters from my father. One read so much like a poem that I had…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 