RIP, Charlie Parker. Reportedly, Bird told his wife, “please don’t let them bury me in Kansas City” . And, there he lies, with his mother, lonely, isolated, up on a hill, behind a iron rusty gate I had to move in order to drive down a potholed gravel road and reach the site. A small signContinueContinue reading “Bird Lives”
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The Plaza – New Words
Pleased to share a new writing, “The Plaza,” which just went live at Biostories, as the work of the week. Biostories is a publication featuring “word portraits of the people surrounding us in our daily lives, of the strangers we pass on the street unnoticed and of those who have been the most influential andContinueContinue reading “The Plaza – New Words”
Red Cathedral – Light
Pleased to have another new work of mine “Light,” featured in the latest edition of “The Raven’s Perch,” a wonderful, award-winning, and well-respected literary zine. It’s a piece of creative non-fiction, falling in the world between story and scenario, poetry and prose. Enjoy. https://theravensperch.com/light-by-doug-hoekstra/
Wildflowers
Spring is wildflower season in Middle Tennessee, and throughout April, took some rambles at Fall Creek Falls, Cedars of Lebanon, and a couple trips to Beaman Park in Ashland City during April (half an hour from Nash, for the out of towners here). First Beaman trek was a guided tour, thank you Gloria, strolling alongContinueContinue reading “Wildflowers”
Bob Dylan & Memphis Musings
Late post from March 30, but time is an illusion, time is a jet plane, time out of mind. This was a Memphis trek, in and out to see Bobby D one more time, at the Orpheum Theater. Great old palace, Elvis loved it and rented it out a lot, before the days of movieContinueContinue reading “Bob Dylan & Memphis Musings”
Doug Hoekstra 