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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.

thoughts below ground 2

the worms that share this level are excited by the coming warmth but worried about the myth of birds that has spread among them some philosopher worm has speculated that there exists a dimension above and distinct from this exalted … Continue reading

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thinking below ground

Late in the day when the whether has resolved into the done and can’t be returned for a refund, and complaining is still tiresome as teenage logic, and achievement seems like magic, I sit down here in my subterranean office … Continue reading

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corners

Our tin ceiling when it’s finished will have cornices each pressed and cut from powder-coated tin. So shiny it will be and so exotic: I hope that doing it won’t do me in. The corners of the cornices are intricate … Continue reading

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