53Richard L. Provencher
E-mail: richardprov2@gmail.com
Richard L. Provencher has many story-poems published Online and in Print. His writing is about everyday situations and his work gives voice to the not so noticeable. He and his wife, Esther live in Truro, Nova Scotia and are married since March 27,1975.
They are co-Authors of numerous e-Books. A Direct Link to their Author Page on Amazon.com is: http: //www.amazon.com/Esther-and-Richard-Provencher/e/B00O8K9UKE
Richard was a member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia for many years, until his stroke in 1999. He had been a Writer-in-the-Schools Program under their auspices for eleven years. Esther enjoys art-painting, and her church work. Richard enjoys writing poetry, as he continues to recover from side effects of his Brain Aneurysm, which gob-smacked him in 1999.
Esther & Richard Provencher created many of their stories & novels from experiences in raising four children, as well as being foster & adopting parents. Richard was born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. Esther was born in Cape Spear, New Brunswick. They were married in Sarnia, Ontario and later moved to Wyoming, Ontario in 1980 and then to Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1986.
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August is a blue haze of
ripened fields,
hurried over by swarming pickers
this year of plenty. The Rakers eye
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Sidewalks are community minded
their cement fingers meandering from
house to cat-on-porch home
bringing people together
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Thunder disturbed a mirage of peace; lightning painting
the sky, and his head felt severed from an explosion -
He was like an irregular lump on the hospital mattress
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