Issue fifty-eight Date of Publication August 1, 2020.
Individual pieces Copyright © 2020 by their respective creators

Editor: Mark Young

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This issue of Otoliths is dedicated to the memory of Louie Crew Clay & Michael McClure, contributors to earlier issues of Otoliths;

to David Dungay, Jr. a 26-year-old Dunghutti man who had a talent for poetry that made his family endlessly proud. Prison officers stormed his cell on December 29, 2015 after he refused to stop eating a packet of biscuits. He was restrained, administered a sedative, & died. Dungay’s last words were “I can’t breathe;”

& to George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American man, who was killed on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest. A white police officer knelt on Floyd's neck for almost eight minutes while Floyd was handcuffed & lying face down, begging for his life & repeatedly saying "I can't breathe."

Despite over 430 Indigenous deaths in custody in Australia since 1991, no one has ever been convicted.

Mark Young in lieu of an editorial Guy R. Beining Two Series Kim Trainor Two Poems Louise Landes Levi Three Poems Texas Fontanella & Brandstifter SOUVENIR DE FLORENCE SOUVENIR DE FLORENCE (cont'd) J. D. Nelson Ten Poems Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett Thirteen Pieces of Vispo Sanjeev Sethi Five Poems Simon Perchik Three Poems Debiprasad Mukherjee 12 Circulars for Missing Persons Scott Helmes Haiku with Friends Jon Skolnik SLEEP DEBT Cecelia Chapman House of Miracles If the dog doesn't bark don't bite it, 1 & 2 John Grey Four Poems Elaine Woo Three Visuals Jim Meirose Self-Serve Pet Wash-Stop Station James Croal Jackson Factory Friend Jürgen O. Olbrich Two visuals, two Wordworks Ace Boggess Three Poems Kristin Garth The Sweet Seduction of Willy Wonka Javant Biarujia Pages from The Taneraic Dictionary p204 p283 p287 p367 p422 p471 p544 p559 p598 p615 p623 Translations plus Pataphysical Interpretations of some Petits Poèmes en Prose by Charles Baudelaire Christian ALLE Ciudades Craig Cotter Four Poems Angela Caporaso Two Visuals Joseph Salvatore Aversano Four Poems Aimée Keeble Two Poems Daniel de Culla Nine Visuals Seth A. Howard Three Poems Jon Riccio Dorothy Zbornak with a Haibun by Igor Stravinsky Jim Leftwich Williams, AZ vispo Williams, AZ Vispo (cont'd) Jim Leftwich, John Crouse, John M. Bennett The Virus Variations Albert Pellicer & Márton Koppány Two collaborations Lynn Strongin Six Poems from MY LITTLE SISTINE hiromi suzuki Cactuses Have the Various Flowers Jack Galmitz At a loss Carol Stetser Corona Suite Richard Magahiz & John W. Sexton Five Poems John M. Bennett Twelve Pieces of Vispo Text Poems Laurent Grison Icarus Paul Ilechko Three Poems Joel Chace The Plague Year Texas Fontanella & Stuart Wheatley Nine Visual Pieces Kyle Hemmings Interiors I to VII

Howie Good Three Poems Jessie Glass Two Visuals & Two Poems Matthew Schmidt Five Poems Mary Kasimor Four Poems Olivier Schopfer Doors Doors (cont'd) Jeff Bagato Two Poems Ten Pieces of Vispo Kit Kennedy Five Poems, Two Visiblink pieces Richard Biddle Five Pieces of Vispo Adam al-Sirgany Bless me, , for I have Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch Summer mail2020 Zebulon Huset Two Poems Eric Mohrman Three Poems Demosthenes Agrafiotis Four "Wasted Poems" Susan Gangel Family Album (1) & (2) Jessy Randall Six Poetry Comics Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal Feeding Her Hunger Andrew Topel An Untitled Series, Plates 1-12 An Untitled Series, Plates 13-25 sound off 1 to 7 John Bradley Three Poems Anindita Sarkar Three Prose Pieces Mike Callaghan circling and finding Adam Aitken Five Poems Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad Six Ways of Looking at a Magpie Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah Three Paintings Olchar Lindsann A Miscellany Mark Roberts Three Poems Ruggero Maggi Six Visuals Milton P. Ehrlich The Past is Never Dead J.J. Campbell Two Poems Jeff Harrison Two Poems Joanna Walkden Harris & Pete Spence Two Poems Jill Jones Five Poems Scott MacLeod Passenger List I-Ching 1-6 Ryan Shane Lopez The Clench Tom Beckett Two Poems Judith Skillman Five Paintings David Rushmer PANES Jeff Crouch & Diana Magallón Four Visual Pieces Clara B. Jones Supreme Court bart plantenga Two Lists from LIST FULL John Wesick Ramparts of Indifference gobscure & Texas Fontanella Ten Pieces of Vispo gobscure Two Videos Alex McKeown Three Poems Diana Magallón Four Visuals Randee Silv It's Already Gone Elmedin Kadric Five Visuals Sheila E. Murphy & John M. Bennett Five Collaborations Tony Beyer Four Poems

Keith Higginbotham Four Poems J. Crouse In Italics Dave Read More Pages from an Asemic Journal Ivan Klarić Rain in Dubrovnik Keith Nunes Divergent Disorder, 1 – 4, + A Poem Richard Kostelanetz from V poems Texas Fontanella Fatal Breath, Part 1 John Levy Five Poems Stephen Nelson Three Outdoor Asemic Pieces Kevin Stebner Four Typewriter Visual Poems chapters from Autobiography of a Book as told to Glenn Ingersoll Connor Orrico Three Poems Jim Leftwich Egggoner Nineteen Valeria Sangiorgi Nocturnes, Part 1 Nocturnes, Part 2 Eric Hoffman Translations of Ozaki Hōsai Joe Balaz A Visual + Four Hawaiian Islands Pidgin Poems Grzegorz Wróblewski Parallel Space I-III, & an afterword Stu Hatton Three Poems Vivek Prahlad Six Photographs from Japan Nick Nelson Carl and Conrad Dörthe Huth Two Poems Kristine Snodgrass Phraseology Hrishikesh Srinivas Two Poems nicky melville THESE ARE POEMS Penelope Weiss Two Meditations John M. Bennett & Texas Fontanella Three Pieces of Vispo Mridula Kashyap Blighted Land Marilyn Stablein Terra Incognita Dani Netherclift Lifelines / deep white Bob Heman The Arrival (V) from INFORMATION Julie Sampson Four Poems Johannes S. H. Bjerg Ten unphotos Jonathan Minton A Review of Joel Chace's Threnodies Irene Koronas from lithic cornea Theodore Worozbyt Five Prose Poems M.J. Iuppa Possessions Daniel Y. Harris from The Misprision of Agon Hack Katrinka Moore Three Visuals Paul Pfleuger, Jr. Nine Poems Michael Brandonisio Three Visuals, Three Text Pieces Cherie Hunter Day Six Collages Alan Chong Lau Five Poems K Roberts Two Visual Pieces Danni Storm Seven Erasures of Seven Translations of the end words of Baudelaire's Tristesses de la lune Katie Fanthorpe A sense of wellbeing Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola BREACHES An Introduction 2019 2019 < 2017 2017 < 2014 2013 < 2010 2010 < 1980

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Otoliths would like to acknowledge the Juru People who are the traditional custodians of the land where this journal is prepared.

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