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.

remark

Conversation can be just so polite; we comment on the weather and daylight and the cards we play as if the whole array is with us every day— and it is. Looking at the whole constant stream can be like … Continue reading

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jolted

snow trickles away browbeaten by the returning sun sublimed into the blue pavement and bricks naked as the wintered trees echo startled footsteps birdsong and traffic chatter brash and loud passing voices erupt saucily winter’s muffled caution is gone spring … Continue reading

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environmentalist

I insulate; I pound my chest; seek power from the sky; I polish up my SUV; and still you ask me why the earth is in rebellion and ice is melting down and soil is blowing off the fields— and … Continue reading

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