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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.

the builders

In ancient caves eons past the hunt was crayoned onto walls in elegant soft coloured stone on stone the glorious drama of their lives In ancient pyramids millennia past kings and pharaohs lay entombed as gods the epic stories of … Continue reading

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Jay-Gee closes

We walked down the almost empty main street in bright cold March sunshine bare pavement rimmed by bulging snowbanks we stepped over one opalescent ice stream that made this patch of concrete treacherous The silence was Shakespearian no birds in … Continue reading

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sky

I’m in bed that tiny wedge of deep blue sky ignites my day

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