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.

argument

Posted on June 8, 2008 by riverwriter

Just mowing the grass on a hot humid smog smothered shad fly infested mosquito plagued afternoon can wreck any argument for doing it the shad crawling trapped between my lenses and my face leaves specks on my specs and sweat … Continue reading →

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vanity

Posted on June 7, 2008 by riverwriter

and he opened his eyes to see a broad river whose water gleamed swirled jade and amethyst, garnet and sapphire he turned his back on it and looked to the rude mud huts that stood nearby and with his inner … Continue reading →

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Naked at the Mall

Posted on June 6, 2008 by riverwriter

Of course the title of this piece depicts a nightmare: you have been heading for an appointment with somebody important (like St. Peter at the Pearly gates?) and you realize people are looking at you and you are in the … Continue reading →

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