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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.

detail

Periodically the driver had veered to dump the bucket
left false trails to trap the unwary in the crystalline desert. Continue reading

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in passing

the guy scraping his windshield sent raspy blasts of ice drops popping into the crisp cold air Damn shame I didn’t go with my buddy: he left for sunny Florida two days ago He didn’t use the colon on purpose … Continue reading

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listening

Old gray cat calls in the hall deaf dancer waiting for an answer. Fruitless I coo endearment near her: she cannot hear me. Wauls for her god long gone.

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