Marina Lee Sable's poems have been published in Voices International, Pirate Writings, Tight, Small Pond, Dreams and Nightmares, Star*Line, Pegasus, and other magazines. This poem first appeared in Pirate Writings in 1997. 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 1996-2001 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).

Destiny by Marina Lee Sable One last moonrise melts in the nebulous night of memory strands, dark chimeras drifting toward a fluxing future. Retrorockets ignite a fission of wailing walls inside a fiery ion glow that splits an alien atmosphere down destiny's dark selvage spine. The midnight lands summon the silent sleepers to the shadowy realm of a penumbra.