Author Archives: riverwriter

About riverwriter

Poet, playwright, duplicate bridge player, website designer, cottager, husband, father, grandfather, former athlete, carpenter, computer helper for my friends, theatre designer, backstage polymath, retired teacher of highschool English, drama, art, a baritone singer in a barbershop quartet, who knows what else? wordcurrents is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wordcurrents/ Doug also has a Facebook page, "Incognitio", related to his novels.

Climbing

Poem: After a a teaching career, one often meets ex-students, and this event is sometimes an occasion for contemplation. Continue reading

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archive: in perpetual schottische

in perpetual schottishe Tune your pipes and honk ’em up lad and sup on the whiskey we gi’ you for tartan is flying and summer is glad and the blood’s in the tune alleluia O hear the soft swirls of … Continue reading

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other

a north-easterly flow of warm humid air over the ice in the river valley will bring unseasonably dense foggy conditions for most of today no island trees dark splayed fingers extended through the soft still white dream of winter the … Continue reading

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