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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.

bricks tumble

cool bricks tumble as if thrust by sky to be the wall masonry to seal all passage to those startled flames alighting on the grass to resist my flailing attempts to assemble words that might ignite your preoccupied eyes

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How he brought the good news from the doctor to the wishing well

I was busting out all over It was almost like galloping except I was posting in the car stalled in grid lock while the radio hosts bantered with phone-in opinions on something or other urgently requiring immediate inanity I wanted … Continue reading

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teeter

just before the appointment when you were unaware that there was an appointment that the arms of the clock were lining up in a specific arbitrary configuration you were gazing through a butterfly at the blue rag of sky or … Continue reading

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