HOOT ONLINE, ISSUE 67, JANUARY 2018 – MICRO FICTION, POETRY, MEMOIR, BOOK REVIEWS

 

The Wind Whistles
by Jo Haraf

The wind whistles
Through my earrings
When I turn my face
To the sea.

 

 

♀
by Hayli Cox
art by the writer

I remember staring up at wallpaper borders, a whole room encircled by alphabet so vast I was sure I’d never remember all of it, writing L & R on my hands before the pledge of allegiance so I knew which to hold over my chest. I learned patterns of braille for women, men, boys, and girls, feeling dots beneath fingertips because I forgot how to trust my eyes. I had trouble with the pictograms, where the circles went in relation to plus signs or arrows, whether mine pointed down or up or somewhere to the side. Something in the roundness, something in the weight of lines crossed and hanging suggests celestial. Now, I understand the moon menstruating, Luna with her curves, androgynous face. I think about how she pulls at the ocean, how her blood must fall there somewhere and mix. How she pulls because she wants it back.

 

 

“the state of me”
by Jacinta V. White
art by Brandon White


coconut rum on the nightstand
crackling ice occasionally filling
the space between applause
from the tv set      across the room
harry belafonte and waltermosley
discuss the plight of black folks
and i become intoxicated by the
intelligence of me and you and us

 

 

Your Refraction
by Brennan DeFrisco
they say the moon only borrows light.
that stars reflect so brilliantly,
night cannot keep us from their shine.

would that love moved in mirrors:
that I could look at a full moon
& see you smiling back

 

 

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Jo Haraf’s poetry and prose have been published online and in print. She lives near the Golden Gate Bridge with a scruffy terrier whose adoration sustains her through revisions and rejections.www.JoHaraf.com


Hayli M. Cox is a recent MA graduate from Northern Michigan University and a Fiction Editor for Heavy Feather Review. She enjoys writing, playing with Legos, walking her cat, and Lake Superior night swims.


Jacinta V. White is a NC Teaching Artist, poet and facilitator. Her chapbook, broken ritual, was published by Finishing Line Press; and her poems have been featured in a number of magazines, journals and anthologies.

 

Brennan DeFrisco is an MFA candidate in poetry at Antioch University Los Angeles. He was a National Poetry Slam Finalist in 2015, placing third in the country. He’s the poetry editor at Lunch Ticket, and is a teaching artist with California Poets In The Schools and Poetry Out Loud, facilitating creative writing workshops for students across the Bay Area. He’s the author of A Heart With No Scars by Nomadic Press and co-author of Exquisite Duet by Hermeneutic Chaos Press, a collaboration with Allie Marini.

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