Issue five of Otoliths
has just gone live, which means it's a year old today.

It's also May Day, so arise & join in a chorus of The Internationale with Paul Siegell, Andrew Topel, Jordan Stempleman, Ernesto Priego, Paolo Manalo, Eileen Tabios, Jeff Harrison, Katrinka Moore, Corey Mesler, Raymond Farr, Steve Rodgers, Robert Lee Brewer, Mark Cunningham, Martin Edmond, Steve Timm, James Sanders, Audacia Dangereyes, Thomas Fink, Spencer Selby, Maria Zajkowski, Richard Lopez, Marcia Arrieta, Tom Hibbard, Matina Stamatakis, Louise Landes Levi, Márton Koppány, Anny Ballardini, Jill Jones, Craig Santos Perez, mIEKAL aND, Dax Bayard-Murray, Ed Schenk, MTC Cronin, Alana Madison, Alexander Jorgensen, Andrew Taylor, Carol Novack (& Stan Crocker), Stephanie Green, Maurice Oliver, Caleb Puckett, David-Baptiste Chirot, Derek Motion, James Maughn, Michael Rothenberg, Tom Beckett, Nick Piombino & Richard Kostelanetz as they "change henceforth the old tradition".

otoliths

terror 72

"don't discover it!"
tongue out mouth
wider (open) spun eyes dominate
"not a trick of light around
the ears" nostrils
higher forehead (lock of
hair) from behind
forward 3's pigeon
"has this, however"
hawk's up
over flapping lighting
structure staring eyed
head back neck
"will it sit and,"
falcon down "look up?"
conspicuous (salient)
dragged out two streets to
main & () stigma
flavoring dried
disappearing head back
throat thrust out to
"eat slowly, one bite"
time re
appearing hand window
'pearing 2 pigeons
curves counter clockwise
scribbles middle
blue (ish) halo slightly
from the back

terror 71

"touch down" runs faster corner'd round
black van wheels smoking (away)
from "that's wealth in a nutshell"
plump two wheels up Echo Park Sunset
'testinal sighted without windows 'destrian
above once run skidding gone
LAPD following (1,2,3,4,
5,6) lights "even now the sun"
rapidly sirens golden yellow
"that's just a provision" grocery
store bags vendors street (up) chopping
quick succession no restraint running with flowers
"that's just , ciao!" point stopped death
(an ending) weakness over hang
rusted bent (pipe glisten) grayed 'thargy
"let's go to dinner?" stop sign turns

terror 70

against surface decorated

"not from sea"

contempt exposure

foreign'd left arm

hung head'd from

back pocket hand'd (not

abstract) rubbing the

other abstract steaming warmth

embrace detach squat

abbreviated left leg

forcing knee less

force resting

redolent alternative memory

(s) places her

head down

(one figure)

pose Venus as

Venus without "it's

exuding a space"

feathered (from)

distance 3 inches

"mindful that it"

couple it into 

one over hole buttocks

conditions spray sense

up close scrawl shadowed

penciled in(to)

"coming about by

social change?"

series decay posed detaching

embracing over

leaning right leg twisted

out (revulse) model'd lacerate

terror 69

accretive "not a" whether such sleeping
(going from here to there)
one over (red, blue, black)
one Jacob wrestling background
"less one included,
today" angels transfix
borrow mood (somber)
"that's" head back
charcoal fire
beginning duplicate looking
eye open "each
line ends" soon a chicken
breast(less)
growth additional one's
eye looks (rhyme
"ohhhh!") into't 
wall hand push
harder wrestling repre
(sent) experiment exploring
red brick embarking
emotion black's blue (s)
"fuckin' incoherent, no?"
glass hitting metal
over'n'over (thrown)
sleep broken arms
back handcuffed "it
belongs to an
earlier," Jacob's
bed left sleeping side face

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terror 68

conception (less) painted
smeared "rubbed over
roughly, now don't
take this"
once intimacy as one
paraplegic rolls
wheelchair (not apparent)
sing "tomorrow, tomorrow is"
starting to light
"stay by, sides
you're then" drug
less gaining
chewing chin (color)
area hip up
down stride bag
fingered "are those your
candies?" wrong
way sign (s) handle
rubber chrome scratched
"babe" right
a'little "there it's
unified, pictorial" tennis
gutter shoes heel
(ball) foot pushing faster
backed up toilet
plunger ambiguity less
gutters (rain is)
up the
sun came "over there,
see'm?" chin
up'n'down chew(s)
"at the same time" visual

terror 67

put on your shoes put (into)
questions (burned) chance
limits crepuscular
light (on) switched off
"verging on
abstract bullshit" suffer
(ing) scratch thigh mole
evenly between illness (and)
health maybe
driving (one car two car)
stuck behind "moving away
reveals"
moss north side building bricks set
level'd 'xiety xanax
control'd bump't over
to single sentence
(statement) project
(ed) where (not) 
lacing 'gories red
fixed "whether this
fails as therapy" mix'd
"projected anxiety?"
pull up your socks
"that's a bump" leg floating
problems bounce
cancer (ous) maybe
all situations "not
really" thigh spot'd mole

terror 66

removing blocks

"you get your (no

shit) here"

tucked under

"on top"

long line ended

period periods

over examples breathing

faster digging hard to

territory articles paper lash meet 'pose

particular

reads kilometer

equivalent "you're that

pretentious" (in the

same form)

four blocks removed

(set) crowned pieces

watch'd (ing) lips

open eyes

greet'd (ing)

up under frames view

cylindrical bottled

terror 65

remove'd concrete

frame'd (it is) "bull

shit!" there

doorstep crapped out

"no, shit!" poem (s)

dulled into

crapping philosophy

"just done from a

reading, a read" picture

goodness removed

hole enclosure noted

(regret) "that's

a

saw sawing, asshole!"

inflicted sledge hit

hammer (around)

pill (s) concerning

'nitive

"ah, ah, ah"

broken glass

into bottles

penalty breached

leaning over

run as