Casting ourselves back to early 2012, this one appeared in Canopic Jar #25, http://www.canopicpublishing.com/canopicjar/25/doug1.htm (fine zine, check it out) Short Songs, Long Lives (January 2012) She sent me a note about a song she’d just written, no instruments, “simple and sorta county.” “I love my little tune,” she added. Don’t know why, but this remindedContinue reading “Short Songs Long Lives”
Category Archives: 2012
Stars
Back in Sepember, a great zine called Twenty 20 published a short story of mine titled, “Stars,” in their Magic Realism issue. You can check out the whole issue here: here: http://issuu.com/fourxfour/docs/twenty20_magical_realism . I’m a big Magic Realism fan, so I was chuffed. My tale is on page x (ten). The catch on this journal is youContinue reading “Stars”
The Knuckleball
The Knuckleball – First Place Poem at Baseball Bard.com (8/2012) I wrote several others in the summer of 2012, all up at http://www.baseballbard.com/baseball-poetry-archives-link?authorid=46
Extra Sensory Something
Extra Sensory Something (2/2012) Part I – Tiptonville Jude and I sat down to dinner, macaroni and cheese, with corn, fruit, and vegetarian baked beans on the side. As I sit here writing, it’s easy for me to remember, because it is one of three basic dinners Jude eats in their entirety. Sometimes I thinkContinue reading “Extra Sensory Something”
Doug Hoekstra 