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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.

striptease

Each morning brings another revelation: another layer gone so much revealed; the veils you peel are winter’s hesitation: so snowy soft, so fine your goods concealed; each morning now I rise with expectation: the lusty blooms of spring are here … Continue reading

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echoes

Concrete concourse cascades voices like cards shuffled in a casino children chaotic in a gymnasium tourists gawking in a cathedral families chattering in a cave after the kill on a meadow groups hush in immensity sound swept away by high … Continue reading

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adagio

A hard slash of leather purse over her shoulder tongue traces her teeth glimpsed in the mirror she turns and heads into the steamy dark dance hall He is laughing in a crowd of buddies at the bar sees her … Continue reading

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