TY - JOUR AU - Spottswood, Henry. AB - RiveR Life Henry Spottswood Driftwood along the Ohio bank traces its most recent high water mark. It suggests the crusted ring of cream formed in a forgotten cup of coffee. Limbs and twigs and logs are piled, building lumber and firewood and fine lamp bases for someone willing to craft them. Higher up, nested in bushes, an abandoned drifter camp. A fire pit with ash and charred driftwood ends. Milk crates for seats, styrofoam cups, newspaper, a shirt hanging on a limb. A tarpaulin roof has collapsed. In the night of the first winter flood the wood will move on a southward flow toward a muddy shore near Paducah, little the worse for wear TI - River Life JF - Appalachian Review DA - 2010-05-08 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-north-carolina-press/river-life-WT5eypw9oT SP - 95 EP - 95 VL - 38 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -