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.

ooth care

Pehaps Pearldrops was first to refer to a Doctor of Dental Surgery as a “denis”, when the smiling girl with bright white teeth told me right on TV to “see your denis” for “whi(t)er, smoother (t)eeth”. Recently, the makers of … Continue reading

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begin

After the grandchildren leave— and I am certain the same was true when their parents were their age— our carpets, in fact, all horizontal surfaces, are littered—nay, saturated— with what could be confetti, but is more likely small visible bits … Continue reading

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simple

You can trust a child to see with the clarity of an ant this crumb be food to scream at dinner and throw beet juice at a white suit when the universe is misaligned Oh, that children could vote.

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