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.

On having his words read by strangers

each sound in the house is an alarm speaking to a head stuffed by the garrison of fluids poised like a battalion in defense of access and egress around the anxious brain words flow out of here into the world … Continue reading

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In the silence of our rooms and halls when all the grandchildren are gone I contemplate the paintings on the walls and see our lives and loves are drawn in those ordered panels and on glass of coffee tables where … Continue reading

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The Morale of Weather Forecasters II

Yesterday’s freezing rain that stopped all school buses was actually a warm sunny dry spell that forced children to play outside on a school day. Poor children. Today’s freezing rain that stopped all school buses was actually cold blowing snow … Continue reading

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