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.

Photographed meditating in the shade of a single palm

I wrote this after I saw a photo posted on FaceBook. In winter, notherners tend to fantasize about far away beaches . . . Continue reading

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January Thaw!

And now, for something completely different: if it isn’t one thing, it’s another. Continue reading

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He called it swimming

Grief can change a person for a time, physically, even. This piece may be a fragment of a larger work. We’ll see, won’t we? Continue reading

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