Lucid Dreams
written by: Lindsay Soberano Wilson
The time between the first and second lockdown
was like a lucid dream:
awake but not awake
dreaming but not dreaming
in control and out of control
sleeping and awakening
aware and unaware
knowing and not knowing
looking and finding
healing and mending
masking and unmasking
waiting and starting
stopping and going
Now that we’re in the thick of the fog again
I can’t remember what that dream was all about
it was like a pause except it wasn’t a pause
it was a life ~ on hold ~
learning new dreams to dream:
how to hold them
how to own them
how to remember them
how to share them
(dreams that is…)
–Lucid Dreams.
Lindsay Soberano Wilson is a teacher and author. She is a Pushcart Nominee for Hoods of Motherhood: A Collection of Poems (Prolific Pulse Press, 2023). Her chapbook Casa de mi Corazon: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir explores how her sense of community, Canadian Jewish identity, and home was shaped by travel. Lindsay’s second poetry book, Breaking Up With the Cobalt Blues: Poems For Healing (Prolific Pulse Press LLC, 2024) is forthcoming, featuring visual and lyrical poems that find peace in painful, messy, shameful parts of life unearthed at inconvenient times. Soberano Wilson graduated from Concordia University's Creative Writing program and went on to earn a Master of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Toronto. She is writing a memoir about being a third-generation Holocaust survivor.
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