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DECEMBER 2019 GUEST EDITOR

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The intention of the maze is to disrupt
the intuition of the traveller as frequently
as possible

3 Poems by Anna Kahn @AnnaCarlaKahn - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/05/3-p…

you’re sitting there, real as blood and bones could
make anybody and who’m I but
a wraith, a figment?

What evidence

The Forever Tree by Kyla Houbolt @luaz_poet - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/05/the…

This [sequence of syllables] drives away

All evils & devils

This [ritual] ensures

Good weather

2 Poems by Yuan Changming - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/06/2-p…

Doomsday would take on the lure of a sunset if we endured it together, I’m convinced.

A conversation I sometimes imagine

La Brea by Sarah Neilson @SarahMNeilson - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/06/la-…

we own nothing,
we are nothing,

perfect daily progress only,
you are not the ups and downs,

you are the words not the apology,
you are forgiven

2 Poems by Kevin R. Farrell, Jr. @KFarrellJrArt - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/06/2-p…

dead ends that glint
with knives and chains
slamming shut doors
that open silently
into nothingness

Labyrinth Song by Lucy Whitehead @blueirispoetry - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/06/lab…

sunset into beauty every evening, blood-red
inversion fear like the phosphate slag back home. The pioneers had too many calluses

2 Poems by Jeff Pearson @legoverleg - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/06/2-p…

2 Artwork by Thomas Osatchoff - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/10/2-a…

immersed in the visions flowing from
your daydreams and nightmares.

But before I could speak,
the desert heat

Exodus II by Paul Bluestein - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/10/exo…

4 Visual Poems by Angela Rodriguez and Joseph Ellison Brockway @JosephEBrockway - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/12/4-v…

Extinction of psychic toxins or other forms of soul debris.
Internal meteorites of metronomic doom.
Stanzas of psychotropic gloom trash compacted

3 Poems by Juliet Cook @nonvanilla and j/j hastain - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/12/3-p…

Not wanting to die
Is hard work.

But I am further away from the living than the dead
And I can’t remember the way back

Anger by Amal - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/13/ang…

if someone tells you accept
the way the world works without question
you must face them

3 Poems by Jericho Hockett - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/14/3-p…

[Again] / [To surge, rise] by Sue Scavo - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP now burninghousepress.com/2019/12/14/aga…

mother, the objects by Elizabeth Kolenda - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP burninghousepress.com/2019/12/14/mot…

bloodless ugly triplets
‘I / love / you’
I choose ‘I’
not love
not you
not seeing eye to eye
but
fighting tooth for tooth

Hir Qing Sorrow by Iain Fraser @iain - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP burninghousepress.com/2019/12/23/hir…

a refresh and a re-read show slight differences, an erosion, a morphing of concepts.

This is the desert where the obvious is not so obvious

Review ‘poems to be found in the desert’ by Tony Messenger @messy_tony - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP burninghousepress.com/2019/12/23/rev…

I played my violin in the forest
I thought music could fix my disease
I thought music could raise the dead

when my face doesn’t unlock my phone I panic

There Might Have Been Horses by Rebecca Loudon @rloudon - LABYRINTH @byDhiyanah on BHP burninghousepress.com/2019/12/24/the…