Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome back Canadian poet and photographer Katharine Weinmann with two dream poems exploring love. In “Upon Leaving My Father’s House,” the dreamer has a symbolic vision that dispels the illusions she had when she married. “I dreamed I danced the only dance there is/ on the way to my wedding. With seven arrows/ and the courage to heal, I pierced/ through the shadow in the fairy tales I’d been told/ about being a woman in love.” We all have illusions, and, even in the best of relationships, we never quite understand what love means at the start. This is a vivid affirmation that every life is sacred and that honest love is the mark of a good life, written with Katharine’s magical imagery, a fairy tale matured into a reality that is worth far more.
In “Tango Dreaming Through Time” the dreamer and her beloved recapture passion to the strains of the Argentine tango and the light of the full moon. “wild as the moon hidden for nights/ behind a black velvet robe, now glimpsed naked,/ proud and full, in my reverie you grab my hand,/ place yours firmly on my back slick with sweat./ Our legs pressed, poised to carve like hot knives./ Our heads held high./ Our rising heat barely contained. ” This sensual dream plants the seeds for a trip together to Buenos Aires in the waking world as the dreamer realizes that every day is precious. “We’re not getting any younger, my love./ Me on the threshold, you’ve already crossed into our eighth decade./ (Staggering to realize this is what turning seventy means.)” The vulnerability of this poem matches its passion to create a fiery and inspirational vision of love that still simmers after decades.
Both poems show Katharine’s talent for alliterative, rhythmic music paired with earnest, vulnerable storytelling. Read them in Synkroniciti’s “Dreams” issue, available for purchase here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Published internationally in literary journals and anthologies, Katharine Weinmann creates award-winning photos and poetry, walks long distances, sees beauty in life’s imperfections and photographs its shimmer. She was the 2024 winner of Canada’s Lawrence House Centre for the Arts’ Carmen Ziolkowski Poetry Prize; has won and received honorable mentions in Off Topic Publishing’s monthly poetry contests; was a poetry finalist in Synkroniciti Magazine’s “Belonging” issue (2024); and has been nominated for a 2026 poetry Best of the Net.
She blogs at A Wabi Sabi Life and lives on ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan), Treaty 6 territory—the Canadian prairies—with her husband and their dog, Walker.