For your pleasure, a new flash fiction of mine titled “Silently,” published at Treehouse (the home of “good, short writing”). Thanks as always, for the read. Best, Doug. https://treehouselit.com/2018/06/21/brief-encounter-silently/
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Ode to the Blue Room
Happy to report on another new poem of mine published – “Ode to the Blue Room” – featured in the latest One Sentence Poems (Right Hand Pointing poetry journal). This piece follow a distinct Nashville vibe but riffs off some other things, as well. And, yes it’s one sentence. Hope you enjoy it, Doug. http://www.onesentencepoems.com/osp/doug-hoekstra-ode-to-the-blue-room/
Star Parties
Dusted off this one from a few years back, for the upcoming essay collection. Enjoy STAR PARTIES You might find yourself standing in the checkout line at the grocery store, waiting but anxious and bored, having forgotten how to daydream. Your attention might drift to the tabloids lined up strategically in front of you, readingContinueContinue reading “Star Parties”
Ode to the Sunday Paper
Just in time for the weekend, folks…. Ode to the Sunday Paper One of my greatest pleasures is sitting down on Sunday morning cup of coffee in hand, once twice, three times refilled reading through every section of the newspaper, curiosity landing on my lap like the blue jay at the feeder outside my doorContinueContinue reading “Ode to the Sunday Paper”
Nashville Haikus
Recently I was reading some Alan Watts (Zen and the Beat Way), and was struck by his analysis of haiku poetry. He wrote “by the seventeenth century the Japanese Zen Masters had brought ‘wordless’ poetry to perfection in the haiku, the poem of seventeen syllables which drops the subject almost as it takes it up…”ContinueContinue reading “Nashville Haikus”
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