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.

April Green

After the April sun and wind had wrung every drop of dust from every deserted furrow clouds visited intense rain and green sprang everywhere: lush intense green riper than memory sweeter than earth bolder than promises of sweet kisses by … Continue reading

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assistant

Our cat assistant is learning how to knit perhaps “teaching herself” is more accurate as we have no desire to encourage this perling aspiration for our high-strung cat I used to wonder why that string puzzle was “cat’s cradle” when … Continue reading

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come

Buds swell over winter’s tired vistas drag horizons to trembling tonguetips sing politic promises of warm pungent green seduce skin, fur, feather and scale startle and hush sky and footfall stifle vision vista and vantage tickle the soft hair on … Continue reading

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