Dan Schmecker is a 23-year-old computer tech who lives in Shelton, Connecticut. Dark Planet is designed and edited by Lucy A. Snyder. If you spot any errors, or if you have any comments, please contact her at lusnyde@cyberus.ca. All materials copyright 1996-1997 by their respective creators. No stories, articles, poems or images from this webzine may be posted or published without the written consent of their creator(s).

Hiroshima by Dan Schmecker One touch, one eye, one hand clapping Racing to be the first sun. A big apple pie in the sky, that tastes Like falling down concrete stairs Or God's closed fist. Your tools burn my comfort at night When the trees eclipse the stars With shadows of the cold war And rumors of a fallen winter. The conforming force that shaped my cradle My face is fused to the sound of your laughing Letting smoke-filled rooms rule me With the new religion of the sub-atomic The vibrating nothings that bind us still.