Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome writer and poet Louis Faber from Florida with two sensual poems, “DREAM WALKER” and “SHARED DREAMS.” In “DREAM WALKER,” one of our “Dreams” contest winners, the narrator expresses a longing to stroke the dreamer along the spine, but does not wish to disturb sleep. The gentle attention given intimates a vague worry over health: “I listen for you in the night,/ your breathing sets/ the rhythm of my dreams.” Their cat understands this palpable longing and purrs contentedly from a chair.
“SHARED DREAMS” retells side-by-side dreams in the morning. One dreamer dreams of the other with longing, while the other dreams of dew-soaked grass, “the taste of spring/ fresh on your tongue/ as the cat nuzzles/ your cheek.” Minds and bodies in close proximity and relationship can be in completely different worlds while dreaming. There is an appreciation for both worlds here and a longing that these visions come together. The space between us while we dream is a mystery and a source of longing–we can never know each other completely. Louis expresses this with a gentle elegance and simplicity that is filled with reverence rather than obsession. The word music is rhythmic and filled with soft alliteration, a soothing lullaby laced with romantic imagery.
Read “DREAM WALKER” and “SHARED DREAMS” in Synkroniciti’s “Dreams” issue, available for purchase here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Louis Faber is a poet and writer living in Florida with his wife (a fellow poet) and their cat (their editor, she says). He is a retired Corporate Attorney who taught an Introduction to Literature class at his local community college at 7 A.M. for several years. Most of his students, he assumes, have forgiven him. His work has appeared in The MacGuffin, Cantos, Alchemy Spoon (UK), Meniscus and Arena Magazine (Australia) New Feathers Anthology, Dreich (Scotland), Prosetrics, Erothanatos (Greece), Defenestration, Atlanta Review, Glimpse, Rattle, Cold Mountain Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Borderlands: the Texas Poetry Review, Midnight Mind, Pearl, Midstream, European Judaism, The South Carolina Review and Worcester Review, among many others, and has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and twice for a Best of the Web. His new book of poetry, Free of the Shadow, was recently published by Plain View Press. He says he simply cannot retire from writing.