The Dreamers: And Other Poems

The Dreamers and Other Poems captures the tender machinery of longing. These are poems written in an age when poets still believed that beauty deserved careful attention, when the heart's unspoken ache could be rendered in precise and devastating language. Garrison writes about dreams not as fantasy but as the other country where our truest selves dwell - the place we retreat to when waking life fails to satisfy. The collection moves through love's permutations: the joy of connection, the sharp grief of its absence, the way memory softens what once wounded us into something almost beautiful. Nature imagery threads through these pages, not as backdrop but as emotional landscape - dawn breaking on heartbreak, seasons marking the passage of desire. Each poem offers a small door into contemplation. For readers who believe that poetry should slow them down, make them feel something precise, this collection extends an invitation to sit with longing and find it, somehow, companionable.