The Shutting Door by Timothy Gager

The art of creation needs a steady sober hand and a plethora of malleable materials readily available. Poets, who are naturals at breathing life into words, rarely have a problem with the latter of these two necessities. In fact most of their available materials must be isolated, contained, and, yes, even suppressed in order for these wordsmiths to perceive the shape and direction of what comes next. For more of my review of The Shutting Door go here:  http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-shutting-door-poems-by-timothy-gager.html