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.