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.

sleeping beside the giant

he throws his reeking bones to our back yard when he stands and yawns and stretches the ground shakes and our masonry cracks birds stay away and the woods are silent no foxes prowl the neighbourhood nor racoons he empties … Continue reading

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hair

on tv her hair is a billowing golden mystery I don’t know how she moves or sleeps is her head preserved in stasis at night or on a closet shelf why would anyone live like that or does she?

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Trattoria Ristorante

loud and happy seven eager relatives settle around the tablecloth red and white checks wine glasses, steins bread, bruschetta calamari, hearts of palms pasta, sauce, cheese, pepper conversations, laughter toasts, teasing, family, stories we know stories we don’t know people … Continue reading

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