HOOT ONLINE, ISSUE 71, JUNE 2018 – MICRO FICTION, POETRY, MEMOIR, BOOK REVIEWS
pale astronomer
by Jessica Towns
by Jessica Towns
pale astronomer
up before the farmers’ dawn
tilling the starscape
Reincarnation
by Laura Casteel
Before I’m allowed
to be human again
maybe I’ll come back as a dog
to learn humility
unlearn greed
and shed my love’s
conditions on the carpet
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Jessica Towns is a stay-at-home mom moonlighting as a poet in Seattle, WA.
Laura Casteel is a writer and video producer, and managing editor of Treehouse magazine. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her guinea pigs, Fiona and Cake. Follow her on Twitter @LauraCasteel.
