Wings & Other Things is a book of migrations. Its characters flutter
and flap, take off and land, then take off again as they seek the places
they belong. These are characters caught in transition: a widow
searching for a past self on an "Impossible Blue" coast, lovers
explaining to the police and themselves why they're hiding in a Nebraska
cornfield, a teacher on a flight from Chengdu struggling to be
understood, a stranded artist accepting a ride from a stranger on a
highway haunted by the ghost of a woman who never made it home. Each
story is a transformation as Craig turns railroad tracks into an
"infinite number line" and a lightning bolt into a "tentacle of the
unseen." A plastic fork becomes a parable of fragility, and a "scrap
moon" is an image of what is lost and what yet remains. Even a single
word captures longing, instinct, regret, and stubborn hope: "Fly, fly,
fly."