Scott Poole is a pharmacy technician whose poems have appeared in Dream International Quarterly, Poetry Motel, Musing, and Ebbing Tide. 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@indiana.edu. 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 creators.

New York Women by Scott Poole I never been to New York but I imagine all New York women have long hair, long hair they are always combing and the thick hair gets loose and crawls down the skyscrapers in the static of the afternoon, past the anxious, the arguments, and the reflections of angels sifting through rising souls. Falling over the faces of bums napping between hot dog carts and heating grates. Wondering, in dreams, if violins really do cry.