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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.

gray

She poses on the couch our old cat, Circe, reading our emotions as she sits. She waits for sun to shift around the heavens and bring the warmth to her arthritic hip. At noon she likes to walk around the … Continue reading

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temporary destiny

I wish I could announce that the prophecy has been fulfilled but it was more like a prediction a certainty, even we all knew the huge banks of snow that preoccupied us where I in particular wallowed labouring interminably with … Continue reading

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startled

I blink through my window yawn and stretch rumpled and sleepy a sliver of sunrise slices between two buildings spotlights the last snow pie on the lawn and vanishes across the street a group of workers kibitzes in the parking … Continue reading

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