Arriving on Time : Measure Press Inc. : 9781939574213 : 1939574218 : 15 Sep 2017 : As the title of this posthumous collection of Wilmer Mills' poems suggests, time is much in evidence in these poems. Mills' poems were never fashionable, but well fashioned; never subject to trends and fads, timeless rather than timely -- or rather, timeful, the way the rings of the tree are full of years, giving the carpenter a grain to work with and against. Think of those units -- the foot, the cubit, the span -- in which craftsmen once worked, by rule of thumb, how they were always proportioned from the scale of the human body, for human use, even if the work celebrated the divine. Wil Mills' poetry is like that, made not born, the line measured twice, cut once; syntax well-fitted (well-fitted is what "harmony" means, after all), and the whole, solid, strong--that is, sound. "I'll let my work build a winding stair/ In chapels of my singing." Mills is sometimes compared to Frost, but he has not Frost