Keith Allen Daniels, has been publishing poetry since 1972. His poems have appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, SomePIG! (an "arachnoid poezine"), Weird Tales, Recursive Angel, Poets of the Fantastic, Narcopolis, Once Upon a Midnight and numerous other magazines and anthologies. 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 1996-1998 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).

God's Breath by Keith Allen Daniels To the cadence of My breathing all species come and go. Consider this disclosure an honor I bestow, Who once inhaled the trilobites, and trilobitten, sneezed. The horseshoe crab resulted, and long have I been pleased. The stuff of exhalation Europa now imbrues with nascent animations emerging from the ooze. Just hu, of all My creatures, have somehow cheated death. Each time I plan hur exit, hu take away My breath.