Will Greenway’s 10th collection, Everywhere at Once, wond the Poetry Book of the Year Award from the Ohio Library Association, as did his 8th collection, Ascending Order. Both were published by University of Akron Press Poetry Series. His publication credits include Poetry, American Poetry Review, Southern Review, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Southern Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, and Shenandoah. His work has won the Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award, the Prize from Missouri Review, the Open Voice Poetry Award from the Writer’s Voice, the State Street Press Chapbook Competition, an Ohio Arts Council Grant, and an Academy of American Poets Prize, and he has been named Georgia Author of the Year. Will is distinguished professor of English at Youngstown State University.

I Dreamed I Dreamed You
By Will Greenway

long before we met: Quattro
centro face, Mona Lisa lips
hovering above me on my back,
black ringlets veiled around 
my sight,
blocking out the useless light.
This was a while ago,
and maybe a longer while
for you to travel to this place
from wherever time and space
you were.
I suffered days from those
lush dreams, sure,
in thin daylight,
no one would ever come.
Yet, here you are.
I’m not saying I believe in all
that reincarnation crap, but
‘fess up, gentle reader, you do.
Ask lovers how they came to meet:
you’ll hear a story of God,
who brought them both across
the continent, or cosmos,
over distance, through dimensions,
to Youngstown, Ohio to mate. Fate
it was, followed like Magi
the star of a dream they had
of each other that came true.
Like me and you.