How does Tess Gallagher use imagery in I Stop Writing the Poem?

The strength of Gallagher's poem is based on the images she creates. These images
are both physical ones that the reader can visualize, such as the woman folding laundry,
as well as more abstract or emotional images, such as the image of the pain the woman
is suffering while she folds the shirt of her dead husband. In creating these images
Gallagher touches upon universal themes, pictures to which many readers can relate. Anyone who has suffered a loss probably has little trouble imagining what the speaker of the poem is feeling when she envisions the arms of the shirt wrapping around her. The material things left behind remind the bereaved person of the precious moments he or she once shared with the person who is now gone.