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.

hiatus

little brothers sleeping twisted in blankets and sheets like free-falling stars and tentacles still as a portrait gentle as a cyclone ready as a nail metaphor for tomorrow in our silent pre-dawn house

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(Lone) bird on air (conditioner)

Bird on air con       -ditioner d’ya think it’s ma       -ma’s war       -m heart murmuring love? Peek not into her bosom: she will man       -gle stran       -gle with her fan blades. Oh coo       -l down       -y bird       -y coo       -ked as … Continue reading

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chocolate

After the slender honeymoon glazed by the high tiny moon overlooking the lazy blue Caribbean tides she flew back to the clacking bottling plant opened a new box of cherry creams and got sticky dreamy again.

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