Gary's poetry, "word paintings" are dark, heartfelt, playful, quirky, surreal, brutally honest and humorous. Wheels in the Dust draws you into a geographical expanse of small towns, nature, dream worlds, loss, memories, love and the human element.

Gary's free-verse poems are an amalgam of short epiphanies, surreal insight, dark humor, love, romance, loss, harsh realities, strong women, and mania, a of life vividly observed with an artist's perspective, like the Hopper-esque The Man on a Street Corner in a Small Town, or the Epiphany Somewhere Between Clyde Park and Nowhere. There is also a humorous side to Gary's work like Tumbleweed Memories of the Boy with the Red Tobacco Tin or My Past Life as a Barn Cat. Hill 57, Asylum Girl, and Rez Girl are examples of harsh realities, witnessed firsthand.

Short story in 72 minimally colored woodcuts, The Pony is a humorous and dark satire of a dream to escape the trappings of city or urban life for a rural, idyllic one. Sometimes, one is better suited for the life they are escaping. Sometimes not.

Michael John Hamilton Edward Paul Vincent Julius J. Caesar Edison Brains, the 3rd is on a quest for the perfect April Fool's ploy. Can he pull it off and does he have the perfect trick for everyone?

From old 19th century and early 20th century catalogs, encyclopedias, as well as trade engravings and illustrations this surrealistic collage work is based on a recurring dream. The scenes are set in a single room allowing for free association to elicit visual illusions, dreams, and fantasies.

Inspired at an early age by the Dadaists and Surrealists, this Surrealist Poem collage work was created using copyright free illustrations and engravings from magazines, catalogs, and periodicals from the 19th and early 20th century; as well as earlier printed material from medical, animal, and botanical encyclopedias.