Harold Bowes specializes in one-line hard science fiction poems. These two longer poems were originally published in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. 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 creator(s).

Two Poems by Harold Bowes The Night Has Murdered The night has murdered a summer day. It was an effort. It took a long time. Like beads of sweat, the stars. The Distance of Light There is a discomfort associated with the blackness that is the housefly, a darting blackness There is a discomfort associated with the blackness that is the darkness, in corners and high spaces, but the night sky is a comfort There is a sheen like rock there, there is a sheen and, as though fossils imbedded, there is the light