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.

silence again

Posted on May 13, 2008 by riverwriter

This morning was unlike the previous ten: the children didn’t waken me again with startling whooping cries that cauterized my eyes and made me wish for what and don’t know when. The two year old would run around the house … Continue reading →

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anonymous

Posted on May 12, 2008 by riverwriter

I knew the two pots of perriwinkle— narrow suspicious leaves, shy purple blossoms— but the rest of the greenhouse specimens were really strangers to me; I didn’t know a mauve one from a red one, nor a geranium from a … Continue reading →

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lawn at dawn

Posted on May 11, 2008 by riverwriter

Framed by our kitchen window he would ride his garden tractor around his yard next door cut the grass in casual swoops around the tree along the wire link fence monotonous passes smiling at some thought contained within the white … Continue reading →

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