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SEPTEMBER 2019 GUEST EDITOR

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I am darkness of my-self, heretical and a despiser—
When will the black crow leave so life will be kinder?

Metal Heart (Alchemical Auto-Couplets) by Brad Baumgartner - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now
burninghousepress.com/2019/09/06/met…

I cadmium red you even on
your lemon yellow days. You scintillate
my quinacridone violets my cobalt violets
never leave me in alizarin crimson state

Two poems by Lucy Whitehead @blueirispoetry - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/06/two…

///These images are visual excerpts from Chimera, a cycle of visual poems exploring evolution.///

Two visual poems by James Knight @badbadpoet - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now
burninghousepress.com/2019/09/07/two…

“My guts are clogged with dataplasm.” Its tone shrouded under static. The wall-voice appears otherworldly, its offspring only an extension of the host’s desires

Babel-ware by Mike Corrao and Logan Jones @ShmikeShmorrao - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/08/bab…

inside this warehouse in Queens
Don’t you see the Drums— slurs Tiger Lily—

There are only two notes, turn turn
But she only hears one—

Electric Forest by Victoria Nordlund - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/09/ele…

Animals almost pistols,
and they, the more. Battalion,
make right. Cumberland’s the fire,
the came and was. Forward there;
left. Came struggle, victory, usurpation

Animals Almost Pistols by Sacha Archer @sachaarchermeat - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/10/ani…

I have a memory that no one else seems to remember, and now think it was a fantasy that became imbedded with others like a cuckoo in a nest not its own

Galen’s Heart by Tomoé Hill @CuriosoTheGreat - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/11/gal…

that psychedelic tilt, that vanishing point where I cease to exist, replaced by an exquisite facsimile that smiles with my mouth and laughs with my lungs

In May by Emma Miles @EmNatashaMiles - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/12/in-…

Pruina, Sleeping Soul - by Jaisha Jansena @jaishajansena - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/13/pru…

Automatic. A hand to the back while the spine twists.

Automatic. Teeth on the lower lip while a rain drop falls.

Automatic. An unquestioned breath (inhalation)

Auto- by AM Ringwalt @amringwalt - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/13/aut…

Artwork by Bobbi Lurie @BobbiLurie - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/14/art…

The 37th Hour (After Kafka) by Fernando Sdrigotti @f_sd - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/14/the…

Barry from Kmart with rope binds … a strange mixture of cynical talk and shoulder blades that spasm. Banknotes sodden from chocolate milkshake. Suddenly it’s dinner time

CERTAIN MOTELS / MOTEL SOFA by Shane Jesse Christmass @SJXSJC -ALTERED STATES on BHP burninghousepress.com/2019/09/16/cer…

May there be yes

‘Yes, I am’ say
the humans &
the ungods say
‘No, I am not’

Let there be no

Two Poems by Ahimaz Rajessh @ahimaaz - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/17/two…

Apocalypse Poems [Visual Poetry/Collage] by Jeremy P. Bushnell @jbushnell - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/19/apo…

"This stretch-and-sample, sample-and-stretch process was a deconstructive descent, and the “found sounds” became increasingly unfamiliar"

Two Aural Compositions by Sean Hogan @Somniferously - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/19/two…

PATIENT’s fingertips—5-petaled, star shaped, waxy white flowers in full bloom, 3cm diameter. PATIENT denies visual, tactile, olfactory awareness of growths

Please Note: This Sleep Clinic is Fragrance Free by Tamara Sellman @SellmanWriter @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/20/ple…

a sorcery,
a silent infinite orrery of warmth

& whence e n t r o p i cally shrouded,
…….becoming impossible one-with,

…….their lips

4/4 by Petero Kalulé @nkoyenkoyenkoye - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/21/4-4…

I am Odin, hanging akimbo from the white trash tree. The world sees me as hopeful and full of possibility, awed and memorized by the movement of the heavens

The Tao of “Howl” by KB Baltz - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/21/the…

Two Collages by Shloka Shankar @shloks89 - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/21/two…

the pear becomes kinetic
as it reaches for my hand
the room begins to feel my bulk, the pear,
the tension of dirt on the floor

At The Kitchen Table by Sigrid Bergie Feliciano @sigridfelic1 - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/22/a-p…

here I am, falling, third year B. Comp. Sc. branded Nike and American Dreams, Kamau in my head saying a discrete time system in which the output is equal to the input

First Thought by Stephen Orr - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/22/fir…

At this time liquor stores open, whores come out, the night gets started. At this time in the civic centre one’s inner citizen dies. The state dies too, except for the cops

at seven o’clock in the evening by Jessica Sequeira @jess_sequeira @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/23/at-…

you must have been dancing with the alpha wolf,
clinging to the wool of his collar, your paw
buried in the silk of his shoulder, your ankle
heeling to his rhythms as your heart nearly bursts

Precipitation by Bob McAfee - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/23/pre…

Two Poems by Joseph Ellison Brockway @JosephEBrockway - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/24/two…

and there was more but that faded
and when i awoke five people had died
seven had bought toyotas
and the rest were milling around not knowing what the fuck to do

Dream Diary № 1 by RC deWinter @RCdeWinter - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/24/dre…

They will rebuild
even while developers scrap each other
and scramble to sell the extra oceanfront

San Andreas Shores Ferry Service by Todd Mercer - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/25/san…

my voice becomes
the windshield of sorrow;

a repulsion
of electrons (like glass

shattering) separates
the mind from every

thing imaginary

Three Remixed Poems by Shloka Shankar @shloks89 - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/25/thr…

animated limbs artificial sight of pleasure particular accent on
every broken glass plastic nirvana unknown silent steps dying this
instance is invaluable treasure bears a fraud mark

abite* by Darya Kulbashna -ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/26/abi…

Don’t cry. When you’ve finished your first cigarette prick your thumb with the tip of the kitchen knife. Taste the blood and make sure it’s just right for the cake

How to Make a Supermoist Chocolate Cake by Julia Talen - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/26/how…

Ghosting, artifacts, data
……………from diabolical sectors trans-
form into cingulate
……………surges, infiltrating
biological networks—

</b l i n k>

/**Prayer for Validation*/ by Catherine Fletcher @cafletcher2 - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP burninghousepress.com/2019/09/26/pra…

and then you work your way up to implementing vowels. I’d done my dissertation on it.

We both thought it might be fine to live in another language

A Different Branch by Christopher John Eggett @CjEggett - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/27/a-d…

For flashes I wade with
long-arms, lapping
tongues breaking
the creek and calling

Two Poems by Adriana Stimola - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/27/two…

residents of nowhere, no longer migrants but aliens — temporary, transient, a status resisting coherent definition.

*

We had thought about going home. But ‘home’, for us, is complicated

Notes From The Drift by C.C. O’Hanlon @ccohanlon - @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/27/not…

RELICS FROM THE LATE CARNAGE [erased-erasure re-edit] by John Vincler @john_vincler - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/27/rel…

I Adonis Am
Glass Gladiaterroir
POSIlilliLiiiTT Axiomatic
Acoustic Axis Cis Turin Shrouding

IETHER by Rose Knapp @Rose_Siyaniye - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/28/iet…

More importantly, ME is aware of all five versions of YOU with their different places and inability to communicate

One Act Play In Which The Stage Is In Many Places At Once But Only For You by Rob Colgate @YoungAdultRebel - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/28/one…

I project myself inside the plant stems growing in our garden and feel some sense of pulsation; of sunrise & night through a virescent cathedral cortex

The Private Study & Interior Architecture by Beau W. Beakhouse @BeauWBeakhouse - @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/28/the…

Motel Drumming by Sam Lou Talbot @samloutalbot - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/28/mot…

unbearable brightness—
something Van Gogh must have seen
inside those days in his yellow fields.
Like him, I feel a desperation

A Prose Poem and A Poem by Laura Stringfellow - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/29/a-p…

foghorns, seagulls, waves crashing Fort Point. Kim Novak loses her balance but keeps her coiffure. Foghorn, seagull, foghorn, foghorn, foghorn

Trip №3 by Brian Thorstenson - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/29/tri…

When the dust was coming of age
the Niobrara felt its way
through the land, playing laminar
for a way through the bonebeds,
waiting for permissions
only the dead grant

Three Poems by Ryan Harper - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/09/29/thr…

one rips the pages out of a dictionary while the other rips the pages out of the Bible. The sounds and rhythms ebb and flow as the pages scatter across the floor

Ten Simple Instructions for Complex Acts by William Cordeiro - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/29/ten…

If he drank their blood at the pulpit, would the congregation cheer him on with white, waxy candles raised high?

I bless you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Intinction by Amy Barnes @amygcb - ALTERED STATES @schweben_weben burninghousepress.com/2019/09/29/int…