I Awoke in Dreamland
Poems from Either Side 		 

In a starburst of vibrant images both lavish and spare, cerebral and visceral, Galbraith confronts some of life's arcane mysteries: the hazy boundaries between otherworldly dreams and dreamy realities, the tangled inscrutable cosmos, and the wondrous miracle of each minute of life on our lonely planet.

This final edition of "I Awoke in Dreamland" (2024) merges my earliest published poems from the first edition (2009) with a much earlier set of poems from my erstwhile private collection, "Humanoid" (1999). This completes my efforts to revise all six of my poetry books for their Final Edition status, after which I shall turn to prose and storytelling. —M.G.

  
TABLE OF CONTENTS
  introduction
 
PART 1: Humanoid (very early poems)
    FAITH
  • Announcements
  • i be (crawling)
  • magic touch
  • Vacation
  • The Geese of Calcutta
    INSOMNIA
  • Dangerous
  • The Hunter
  • Downsizing
  • let's eat
    TWO WOMEN
  • If Rachael in a Yellow Rose
  • Partly Misty
    COSMOS
  • marvin
  • the far side
  • twinkle twinkle
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PART 2: Dreamland (early poems)
 
 
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