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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.

fountain

I remember the spit-fountain in my father’s dental boutique staring down at the circular drain spitting hoping it was almost over his gentle hands wielding mysteries of pain and precision and finally relief lying back in the hard barbershop chair … Continue reading

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old guy

shaggy eyebrows ballooning nose ruddy cheeks sagging eyes fingers too big for little things too vague for big things legs walking everywhere but straight ahead baggy fabric filled with random bones whatever used to live here moved out like everything … Continue reading

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test drive

This body that I inhabit seems to delight in experimenting to discover just how much pain I can stand As if shingles and impacted wisdom tooth removal and constant sciatica and headaches and nerve pinches and that pressure bandage on … Continue reading

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