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.

recognition

“I earned these lines; don’t you dare erase one of them!”—Anna Magnani, upon learning that a publicity photo of her had been airbrushed. In the morning I look at you as you sleep. You are so you: the fresh sweet … Continue reading

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nonchalant

I was too busy driving to be paying attention girl in a bikini on a cool spring day riding a bike down the main street smiling with a young guy riding casually beside her Wife said “Did you see that?” … Continue reading

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odd

No hydro line went into the old farmhouse a sister and two brothers lived alone they farmed by horsepower and they never painted the hard frame house the colour of dried bones. Year by year they farmed into their nineties … Continue reading

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