Issue sixty-eight Date of Publication February 1, 2023.
Individual pieces Copyright © 2023 by their respective creators.

Editor: Mark Young

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Michael Ruby from TRANCE POSITION + Three Poems Karl Kempton portraiture: oceano dunes to tide line Part 5: rolled by the waves rolled by the waves (cont'd) Robin Wyatt Dunn Four Poems Demosthenes Agrafiotis Happy Norway and a stroll in the "sublime" Beyond the question of: nature vs culture Snow Maps Sanjeev Sethi Four Poems Richard Kostelanetz from NEWFIE Margaret Karmazin I Hear You Judith Skillman Four Paintings Robert Lietz Three Poems Nico Vassilakis Cracked Open, A – M Cracked Open, N – Z Ken Poyner Three 100-Word Stories Roberta Beach Jacobson Four Short Form Poems Mehreen Ahmed Boots for Kings Alexander Lazarus Wolff Two Prose Poems Mario José Cervantes Eleven Visual Poems Tom Beckett What Kind of Fool am I? KJ Hannah Greenberg Four Photographs Robert Ronnow Purposes Incomprehensible and Wonderful as These Purposes Harrison Fisher Six Poems Ruggero Maggi Five Art Works Michael Orr & Texas Fontanella Three Vispo Collabs Owen Bullock Seven Poems Grzegorz Wróblewski EARTH RESEARCH, Plates 12 to 16 Lachlan J McDougall Thin Distance I Ride the White Lightning Jim Leftwich NO WRONG NOTES Four Poems Olchar E. Lindsann Six Poems Three Translations Henry Felerski A Night of Longing Jennifer Weigel LOST Joel Chace from A Ship Daniel Barbiero Toward an Idiolectical Aesthetic Doren Robbins Late Love with Photomontage Jack Galmitz Shining My Shoes For The End Of Days Clara B. Jones A Closer Look Tony Beyer On Cold Mountain Gao An POEMS REVISED FROM AN OLD NOTEBOOK Daniel f Bradley from The Latter Day Twitter Warz Keith McKay Six Asemic Stone Poems John M. Bennett An Ox Crow Twelve Pieces of Vispo John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich Thirteen Pieces of Vispo Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett Three Poems Todd Matson Whalers Field petro c. k. Five Poems Nathan Anderson Five Poems Eric Hoffman A Translation of Sumitaku Kenshin's 試作帳 (Experiment Book) Texas Fontanella & John M. Bennett Twelve Pieces of Vispo Twelve More Pieces of Vispo John Tustin Two Poems Martin Edmond Three Poems

Michael Neal Morris Two Pieces of Flash Fiction R L Swihart Three Poems Dave Read Ten Asemic Writing Visuals Thomas Fink Two Poems Rich Murphy Five Poems Carol Stetser Decoys John Bradley Six Poems Pat Nolan Needles Auto MODES OF NOTHINGNESS Pete Spence Eight Poems Jeff Harrison Two Poems Vernon Frazer Four Poems Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal Three Poems & A Drawing Peter Cherches Three Text Pieces Mayu Kanamori Making of a Family Portrait Making of a Family Portrait (cont'd) Damon Hubbs Five Poems Paul Dickey Three Poems Joshua Martin Five Poems Alan Catlin from Memories Ate Communications Arts Students at the University of the Philippines Los Baños Seven Poems Bob Lucky Five Poems Ian Willey Five Prose Poems Diana Magallón Two Tesselations Laurent Grison Saturation, 1 – 3, Jim Meirose One Moment Please While We Adjust the Equipment Nicholas Wright Four Poems Dzenis Burzic & Texas Fontanella Untitled Visual Sanket Mhatre DIVIDED BY TWO, MULTIPLIED BY ONE Louis Armand from DI/ODE Michael J. Leach Three Poems Rose Knapp Five Poems Keith Nunes Four Poems Oz Hardwick Four Prose Poems Mark DuCharme Five Poems Maggie Yang Two Poems Jon Cone XII POEMS Richard Magahiz Three Poems Michael Battisto Five Poems after Paintings by Paul Klee John Digby & Bill Wolak Eight Collages Bill Wolak Three Collages & Five Photo Collages Susan Gangel Four Matinées Vassilis Zambaras Fifteen Poems Stephen C. Middleton Five Poems Christopher Barnes Townscapes 31 – 35 Andrew Maximilian Niss ad infinitum Elmedin Kadric untitled Kevin Browne Hannibal morning David A. Bishop Degeneration Patrick Sweeney Ten One-Line Poems Stephen Mead Two Poems Hrishikesh Srinivas Two Poems Jared Chipkin Five Poems

M.J. Iuppa Three Poems Linda King Two Poems Steven Waling Five Poems Kenneth Rexroth Five Columns from San Francisco Magazine Five More Columns from San Francisco Magazine Jen Schneider Four Text Pieces Elena Zalogina Grains and Chaff Heath Brougher Four Poems Jeff Bagato Codex Null Five Poems Penelope Weiss Three Poems & A Visual Marilyn Stablein Triptych: Three Collaged Heads John Levy Two Poems Elaine Woo Rubber Faces: The Emoters Edward Kulemin Strategic Squares Lawrence R. Smith Three Poems Cherie Hunter Day Six Collages Kit Kennedy Six Poems Paul Ilechko Six Poems Keith Higginbotham Five Poems Antonio Devicienti Pencil's Landscape 1 – 3 Bob Heman from INFORMATION James Hannon Three Prose Poems J. D. Nelson Nine Short Poems Joseph Salvatore Aversano Three Poems Nathan Whiting THE GAME ROOM Isabel Gómez de Diego Eight Paintings Daniel de Culla Four Photographs Mark DeCarteret Sartre in the key of Marzi Margo Two Poems John Vieira 13 Epigrams Lorraine Caputo Two Poems Marcia Arrieta Five Collages, Seven Poems Mark Blaeuer Three Poems Tim Suermondt Four Poems Texas Fontanella & Chris Edwards Catcher: pp. 65 - 75 Catcher: pp. 76 -85 Mariel Herbert Silkwhirm David Jalajel 26 SNAPSHOTS FROM THE ARK (DEAD DUCKS) Peter Yovu Eight Poems Sheila E. Murphy Two Poems Rico Cleffi Three Poems & A Short Story nicky melville from Power Cuts Edinburgh Mews A mews' bouche (a language event) Paul Pfleuger, Jr. Spat Series bart plantenga mARk / bARt / pARis: Friendship Is A Strange Bond Roger Mitchell Four Poems Angelo 'NGE' Colella Four Visual Poems Réka Nyitrai Three Poems Adriána Kóbor from Cléverre Michael Moreth Three Pencil & Watercolor Paintings Eileen R. Tabios Four Poems Márton Koppány Disambiguation (Ellipsis No. 22)

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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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