Timothy Gager
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Timothy Gager is the author of six books of short fiction and poetry. His most recent chapbook, this is where you go when you are gone, was released in 2008 from Cerena Barva Press. He hosts the Dire Literary Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts every month and is the co-founder of Somerville News Writers Festival.
His Short Stories have appeared in Word Riot, 55 Word, The Binnacle, Scene Boston, Thieve's Jargon, Zygote in My Coffee, Slurve, Poor Mojo's Almanac, VerbSap, Swankwriting (83 Words), Story Garden, Write This Magazine and Further Fenway Fiction. Timothy's poetry has been published in The Ibbetson Street Journal, Poems for All, Right Hand Pointing, GUD, Edifice
Wrecked, Blue Print Review, Barnstorm, Erato, The Binnacle, Spare Change, The Somerville News, High Horse, Third Lung Review, 63 Channels, Poesy XXIV and Night Train. He had 32 works of fiction and poetry published in 2007.
Timothy is the current Fiction Editor of The Wilderness House Literary Review, the founding co-editor of The Heat City Literary Review and has edited the book, Out of the Blue Writers Unite: A Book of Poetry and Prose from the Out of the Blue Art Gallery.
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"Scituate Shoreline"
Storm tides rise,
leave the boarded up
houses like driftwood
resting in sea glass, straw
and smashed shells
of the horseshoe crabs
the stones and boulders
that muscled onto shore
create a bed which
now covers this beach
erasing the memories
to hold a lover at sunset
in the wind swept sand
so fine, was this bliss
"Your personal ground zero (to-franz wright)"
there are no planes that crash
no one to call us
to where we pray
a sign of the cross
for the empty pews
of water damaged wood
saying that the voices
are not god
and to get out
stay out
stay damaged, beaten, crusted
voiceless
as to believe
what you have left
is a huge undertaking
You see
it is only your
small plot of land
that is all
for the dedication
BUT,
it is all
that needs to be rebuilt
