Driftwood, A Review of Michigan Writing

Twenty Michigan writers, including yours truly, appear in Driftwood’s “Air” Issue. The theme takes on many forms, many shapes, and many ideas. Here are some of them:

Dismissing the past limits the ability to breathe.

A phone receiver covers time and distance, from a loved one’s death in a nursing home to ordering pizza for dinner.

A student-pilot learns to respect air turbulence upon take-off.

A fish (or is it human?) contemplates the sky from a flowing stream and philosophizes about the relationship between air and water.

A Flying Wallenda realizes, after a tragic high wire act in Detroit (1962), a need for air beneath him to survive.

Nine Kentucky coal miners compete for what little oxygen they have left.

Bombs fall from the sky, disintegrating three minibuses on their way to Kandahar, bringing tragedy to the air.

And of course my simple story about a boy, his bicycle, and two deflated tires.

There are twelve more excellent poems and/or prose pieces. More information about the journal can be found here and information on the contributors  here.