geographies : Orbost

 

Today the post-
woman brought
me the denom-

inator I need
to solve the
Great Divide.

100 Titles From Tom Beckett: #95

Tattoos Submit Behind Closed Doors

Highway 101 stretches out in front 
of us. What is done is done behind 
closed doors in a studio with no tat-
too sign out on the street. It’s hard 
to beat a panther tattoo or one of a 
lion with no blue in the muzzle. My
time is taken up with innumerable 
actions & things, but just a small 
number of symbols can describe 
them all. I was out way too late last 
night getting tattoos. Now I'm just 
going to bleach my teeth, lay out on 
the couch with my boys, & decide 
whether or not to invest in this busi-
ness that gives people the option to 
preserve their late loved one's tattoo 
as a piece of artwork. If you want to
have my name tattooed on any part of
your body, then fill in the form below 
& submit it. We can't wait to see you.

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recently at Series Magritte

La Victoire (2)



Winning opens a
door; & shows that

nothing at all has
changed. The same

sand, the same sea.
A fresh cloud, per-

haps. But that will
blow away shortly.

The scarred continuum

What is happening to real music? 
Is said that many-particle excited 
states are not always a cause for 
concern; & this view is compatible 
with the assumption that the peculiar 

motion of ionized baryons is known
to introduce passing feelings of de-
personalization. Splicing genres can’t 
always be fruitful: there is no magic 
technique to render things otherwise; 

the presence of an observer always 
means our perturbation will never 
be perfectly spherical. How might 
the brain approximate this inference?
Think of the Earth, & breathe deeply.

A line from Pierre de Fermat

You're turning right onto a dual
carriageway when you're con-
fronted by a stone tablet which
dates to around 1800BC & is

sparsely accompanied by an en-
raptured voice. The lane you were
going to move into is now likely 
to be too narrow to contain the 

opacity controls that ride the sides 
of the car just above the rocket 
launchers which they control. So, 
press the firing key. The immediate 

problem solved as the tablet shatters. 
But a secondary problem & solution
not noticed in the debris, a shard that
reads a3 + b3 = c3. Workings follow.

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Today the post-
woman brought

me a square peg
& a square hole.

It's a kind of
security blanket.

At home with Taylor Swift

 

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geographies: Upotipotpon

 

Today the post
woman brought

me the winter
of our discontent, 

the Arab spring, &
the summer of love.

Plus an apology
from the bookshop 

for being unable 
to fill my original

order, The Fall, by
Albert Camus.

wednesday newstrip

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your eyes have their silence

 

Mercator Projected

https://www.josephsalvatoreaversano.com/post/new-digital-chapbook-release-mark-young-s-mercator-projected-selected-geographies-hdmp-9

geographies: Howqua Hills

 

Issue seventy print parts

The print parts of the final issue of Otoliths, issue seventy, the southern winter issue are now available from The Otoliths Storefront at Lulu. Because of its size, it has been broken down into four parts, two b&w, two full color. This week's discount, available until Friday midnight, is 15% & the promotional code to be entered to obtain it is READIT15. New weeks' codes will be available each Monday on the Lulu Press Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Luludotcom/.

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Part one, the first of the b&w parts, contains work from Martin Edmond, Scott MacLeod, Ian Ganassi, Stephen Bett, Eric Hoffman, R L Swihart, S. K. Kelen, Bob Kotyk, Jon Wesick, Vernon Frazer, Thomas M. McDade. Laurie Kuntz, Lynn Strongin, Sanjeev Sethi, Christopher Barnes, Vaishnavi Kolluru, Marc Isaac Potter, John Bradley, Laura Jeannerette, Heath Brougher, Nate Logan, Paul Perilli, Joseph Buehler, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Paul Dickey. Yuan Changming, Jim Leftwich, Dale Jensen, Judith Roitman, Richard Kostelanetz. Maileen Hamto, Sabine Miller, Alison Ross, Nathan Anderson, Ken Poyner, Jim Meirose, Márton Koppány, Tom Formaro, Patrick Sweeney, Karen J. Weyant. Kirsty Lewin, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Daniel Barbiero, Rus Khomutoff, Pat Nolan, Randee Silv, DS Maolalai, Michael J. Leach, Mark Cunningham, Dmitriy Shandra, Sterling Warner, David Wolf, Sheila E. Murphy, Sheila E. Murphy & K.S. Ernst, Tony Beyer, harry k stammer, Tom Beckett, Michael Gottlieb, Joshua Martin, Mark DuCharme, Réka Nyitrai, jim mccrary, Philip Kobylarz, Adam Fieled, Hugh Tribbey, Alan Chong Lau, & Jacklyn Henry.

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Part two, the second of the b&w parts, contains work from Harrison Fisher, Kenneth Rexroth, Thomas Fink, Ed Go, Pete Spence, Jerome Berglund, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Jeff Harrison, Joe Balaz, Bob Heman, Bob Lucky, Liz Teuber, John McCluskey, Gavin Lucky, Rahul Santhanam, Steve Carll, Opal Louis Nations & Peter Cherches, Susan Gangel, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Tim Frank, Javant Biarujia, Linda King, Ella O'Keefe & Tim Wright, Hifsa Ashraf & R.C. Thomas, Harvey Huddleston, Glenn Ingersoll, dan raphael, John Levy, Jonathan Cant, Pam Brown, Bernie Earley, Eddie Heaton, Robert Burton, Alan Catlin, John Kucera, Steven Salmoni, Jessica Grim, Pete Smith, Charles Freeland, Jane Downing, David Jalajel, Eileen R. Tabios, Damon Hubbs, Eric Lunde, John Tustin, Keith Higginbotham, berni m janssen, Jill Jones, Marty Hiatt, Peter Yovu, Irmak Canevi, Michael Vecchio, Caitlyn Steer, Olchar E. Lindsann, Matthew Platakos, Jessica Dejanovic, Colleen Woods, Bobbi Lurie, Linda M. Walker, Kit Kennedy, J. D. Nelson, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Cy Forrest, nicky melville, Edinburgh Mews, Volodymyr Bilyk, Makenzie Matthews-Beard, & Mark Young.

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Part three, the first of the full color parts, contains work from Satu Kaikkonen, Scott MacLeod, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Jack Galmitz, Marzi Margo, Daniel Lehan, Jennifer Weigel, Giovanni Fontana. Carlyle Baker, Ferran Destemple, Brandstifter, C. Mehrl Bennett, & John M. Bennett, Texas Fontanella, Mike Callaghan, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Christian ALLE, Bill Yarrow, Laurent Grison, Javant Biarujia, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio, John M. Bennett, Pamela Miller, petro c. k., C. Mehrl Bennett, m@, József Bíró, Kimberly Kuchar, Carol Stetser, Texas Fontanella & Michael Orr, Dave Read, Rosella Quintini, & Karl Kempton.

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Part four, the second of the full color parts, contains work from Cecelia Chapman, Doren Robbins, George Myers Jr., Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Adriána Kóbor, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Stephen Nelson, Joe Balaz, Bob Heman, Elaine Woo, Debbie Strange, Diana Magallón, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Jeff Bagato, Guy R. Beining, J.I. Kleinberg , John Levy & Alan Chong Lau, Jurate Sasnaitis, David A. Bishop, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Penelope Weiss, Keith Nunes, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Rick Henry, Cherie Hunter Day, Tony Cosentino & K.S. Ernst, K.S. Ernst, Irena Tall, Tejaswinee Roychowdhury, Antonio Devicienti, Robert Frede Kenter, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Bill Wolak, Barnaby Smith, Mark DeCarteret, Mark DeCarteret & Wayne Atherton, Bruno Neiva, Susan Connolly, Tatiana Novikova, Edward Kulemin, Sarah Legow, Rico Cleffi, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Pearl Button, Mark Melnicove, nick nelson, fred flynn, & Marcia Arrieta.

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Meadow Saffrons (Les Colchiques)

 
The meadow is poisonous but pretty in autumn
The cows grazing there
are slowly poisoning themselves
Meadow saffron the color of your eye-shadow of lilacs
flower there your eyes are like that flower
Violet like the eye-shadow & like the autumn
& for your eyes my life slowly poisons itself

School children come noisily
dressed in their smocks & playing harmonicas
They pick the meadow saffrons which are like mothers
Daughters of their daughters & the color of your eyelids
which flutter like flowers caught in a crazy wind

The cowherd sings very softly
whilst the slow lowing cows abandon
this great meadow ill-flowered by the autumn

—Guillaume Apollinaire

geographies: Kaniva

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Today the post-
woman brought
me what at first
felt like a capital
letter.

Later, 
after a closer
reading, it came
across as a lower
case of déjà vu.

inquiry

to 
see where
the antecedents are

wednesday newstrip

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Otoliths Issue seventy is now live

But first, to postpone the pain of having to confirm that this is, in fact, the last issue of Otoliths, a couple of notices from friends. Jeffrey Side has asked that the word be put about that he's looking for guest bloggers for his eponymous blog. Not poems — he has another site for that — but one where "The posts would not need to be as long as articles, and could (though not necessarily) cover topical issues in the poetry scene." His email is argotistonline AT gmail DOT com. Plus sandy press have recently published a new collection, with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish, from some arcane poet named Mark Young. It's available from Amazon.

Now back to the true purpose of this email. Issue seventy, the southern winter, 2023, issue of Otoliths is now live. This last issue is immense & ranges from the dunes of Oceano across to the battlefields of Ukraine, from Scandanavia down to the unceded lands of South Australia. It contains reviews, memoirs, collages, photographs, paintings, vispo, text poems, short stories, videos, combinations of the preceding plus a few other things. Included are Satu Kaikkonen, Martin Edmond, Scott MacLeod, Ian Ganassi, Stephen Bett, Eric Hoffman, R L Swihart, S. K. Kelen, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Jack Galmitz, Bob Kotyk, Jon Wesick, Marzi Margo, Daniel Lehan, Vernon Frazer, Thomas M. McDade, Jennifer Weigel, Giovanni Fontana, Carlyle Baker, Laurie Kuntz, Lynn Strongin, Sanjeev Sethi, Christopher Barnes, Ferran Destemple, Vaishnavi Kolluru, Brandstifter, C. Mehrl Bennett, & John M. Bennett, Marc Isaac Potter, Texas Fontanella, John Bradley, Laura Jeannerette, Heath Brougher, Nate Logan, Paul Perilli, Joseph Buehler, Mike Callaghan, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Paul Dickey, Yuan Changming, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Christian ALLE, Bill Yarrow, Jim Leftwich, Dale Jensen, Judith Roitman, Richard Kostelanetz, Laurent Grison, Maileen Hamto, Sabine Miller, Alison Ross, Javant Biarujia, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio, Nathan Anderson, Ken Poyner, Jim Meirose, Márton Koppány, Tom Formaro, John M. Bennett (Vispo), Patrick Sweeney, Pamela Miller, petro c. k., Karen J. Weyant, C. Mehrl Bennett, m@, Kirsty Lewin, Hrishikesh Srinivas, József Bíró, Daniel Barbiero, Rus Khomutoff, Pat Nolan, Kimberly Kuchar, Randee Silv, DS Maolalai, Michael J. Leach, Mark Cunningham, Dmitriy Shandra, Carol Stetser, Sterling Warner, Texas Fontanella & Michael Orr, David Wolf, Dave Read, Sheila E. Murphy, Sheila E. Murphy & K.S. Ernst, Tony Beyer, harry k stammer, John M. Bennett (text poetry), Tom Beckett, Rosella Quintini, Michael Gottlieb, Karl Kempton, Joshua Martin, Cecelia Chapman, Mark DuCharme, Réka Nyitrai, jim mccrary, Doren Robbins, Philip Kobylarz, George Myers Jr., Adam Fieled, Hugh Tribbey, Alan Chong Lau, Jacklyn Henry, Harrison Fisher, Kenneth Rexroth, Thomas Fink, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Ed Go, Pete Spence, Adriána Kóbor, Jerome Berglund, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Jeff Harrison, Stephen Nelson, Joe Balaz, Bob Heman, Bob Lucky, Liz Teuber, John McCluskey, Gavin Lucky, Elaine Woo, Rahul Santhanam, Debbie Strange, Steve Carll, Diana Magallón, Opal Louis Nations & Peter Cherches, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Susan Gangel, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Guy R. Beining, Tim Frank, John Levy & Alan Chong Lau, Linda King, J.I. Kleinberg, Ella O'Keefe & Tim Wright, Jurate Sasnaitis, Hifsa Ashraf and R.C. Thomas, Harvey Huddleston, Glenn Ingersoll, David A. Bishop, dan raphael, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Karl Kempton ( a review), Jonathan Cant, Pam Brown, Penelope Weiss, Bernie Earley, Keith Nunes, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Eddie Heaton, Robert Burton, Alan Catlin, John Kucera, Steven Salmoni, Jessica Grim, Rick Henry, Cherie Hunter Day, Pete Smith, Tony Cosentino & K.S. Ernst, K.S. Ernst, Charles Freeland, Tejaswinee Roychowdhury, Jane Downing, David Jalajel, Antonio Devicienti, Eileen R. Tabios, Damon Hubbs, Eric Lunde, John Tustin, Robert Frede Kenter, Keith Higginbotham, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Bill Wolak, berni m janssen, Jill Jones, Barnaby Smith, Marty Hiatt, Peter Yovu, Mark DeCarteret, Mark DeCarteret & Wayne Atherton, Bruno Neiva, Susan Connolly, Irmak Canevi, Irena Tall, Michael Vecchio, John Levy, Tatiana Novikova, Caitlyn Steer, Edward Kulemin, Olchar E. Lindsann, Matthew Platakos, Jessica Dejanovic, Colleen Woods, Sarah Legow, Bobbi Lurie, Rico Cleffi, Linda M. Walker, Pearl Button, Kit Kennedy, J. D. Nelson, Mark Melnicove, nick nelson, fred flynn, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Cy Forrest, nicky melville, Edinburgh Mews, Volodymyr Bilyk, Marcia Arrieta, Makenzie Matthews-Beard, & Mark Young.

& finally, a sincere note of thanks to all of you who have made Otoliths the substantial & much-loved publication it is today.

Enjoy. Be sad.

Thank you for all your support.

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