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.

turtles

We duck beneath a helicopter blade rotation: that makes some sense, although it’s slicing well above our heads. Think of the headsman’s axe taking a swing: you feel the little nick as he adjusts, the way you would measure chopping … Continue reading

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complaint

Why does each spring have to bring such a mess? all the mud and the crud that is left and won’t go; then that dandruff debris shed by maples on walks that gathers in corners like nasty mementos of snow. … Continue reading

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pivot

She could have danced into the next life the next sweet feast the next galaxy instead her head is clamped in a vice of adamantine inertia a black hole around which her galaxy turns inexorable her children have been torn … Continue reading

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