Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back poet Martha Sherick Shen of Iowa with “Dreams drive the Wind.” This is an inspiring poem that encourages us to embrace our confidence and autonomy, emphasizing that it is never too late. “Wind whipped/ Pounded to the ground/ Where the blood of your past/ Soaked the earth as your feet/ Grew memories like Black-eyed Susans/ Whose Sun yellow petals belied hollowed eyes dark with unseeing// But the bees knew/ You could still make honey.” Martha speaks to her mother, who didn’t know the freedoms of today (will they be freedoms tomorrow, one wonders) and is reassured that her mother is completely free in death. Martha’s expressive use of space and spontaneous capitalization is amplified by the alliterative music she creates. Text dips and soars with dancing joy and we feel lighter.
Read “Dreams drive the Wind” in Synkroniciti’s “Dreams” issue, available for purchase here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
