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.

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Posted on March 10, 2008 by riverwriter

“Enough Already” the newspaper said; the storm was the talk of the town. The snow was clogging the side streets and still was coming down. But the wind slashed in and carved the snow and sculpted with her hand. And … Continue reading →

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reluctant clocks

Posted on March 9, 2008 by riverwriter

gremlins have dropped by our snowbound house taking a mad March break from playing havoc with aircraft and fiddled with our clocks quite a picture mad March gremlins using our clocks for violins in some zany orchestra up in the … Continue reading →

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philosophy of snow shovelling

Posted on March 8, 2008 by riverwriter

In sunny surf he woke to hear the snow: the muffled strident rhythms of machines. He coughed; a spasm tore his chest; he sneezed; yet soon he’d trudge out shoveling in the cold. The trees were puffed in white, each … Continue reading →

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