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.

drilling for a heat exchange system

If only the drill weren’t twenty-four dollars a foot; if only the wells weren’t four at two-fifty feet each; if only our way to get heat weren’t so fossil dependant; if only we lived in a country where winter was … Continue reading

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mirror

there are no mirrors in this house the walls are blank and so her spouse her eyes reflect like molten spheres her dark neglect her sudden fears laid out in sets like coal black tears to come as is her … Continue reading

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Driving the deuce in winter

The deuce runs beside the river from our town to Summerstown joyous in its smooth ups and downs and swiping curves except in winter when the river twists angry black with storms then the deuce grumbles salt slushed caution and … Continue reading

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