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.

. . . . than a Sick Husband (redux)

He’s in there coughing again He knows that’s what she’s thinking again Another cough hammers an electric spike through the head bone connected to the ankle bone again Soggy tissues mount in the open bag beside the table of corrective … Continue reading

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Those crows

Those crows are back hurling iron curses at the high north winds calling snow clouds from the topmost tattered tops of the withering dusky trees

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Review: Zadie’s Shoes by Adam Pettle

GCTC’s second offering of the season, Adam Pettle’s Zadie’s Shoes, is billed as a comedy, but be advised that this play carries with it a considerable burden of sorrow, in the same way that Hamlet is quite witty and funny … Continue reading

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