A Thousand Stories Inform our Dreams is about telling stories. It plays on the theme of 1,001 Arabian nights' whose main character, Scheherazade, composed a story each night for more than a thousand nights.
Her stories include "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to journey to the Garden of Eden and, eventually, travel across the cosmos where he encounters djinns, mermaids, talking trees and other forms of life. Another popular story recounts the seven journeys of Sinbad the Sailor.
This poem concludes the section of Flywheels called "My Dark Branches" which honors Night. The last line is about bringing the magic of dreams into our daily life.
