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 Star*Line in 1999. 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).

Fusion by Marina Lee Sable Beneath the horned moon hanging in the black sky, stars glittering with auguries and comets leaping to their prophetic death, the pink-tinged nebula of night slumps against the land. Sirens dissipate down distant streets, buildings darken and resolve to ashes. Everything draws into itself, a gray smolder at the end of its ride. Moon, stars, roof tops disappear in the filtered light of prism veils breeding wild flowers in the air. The city floats from its telluric dock -- a spectral extract in occultation, a dopplegänger dwelling of a distant light reinvented, as gods, spirits and legions cluster and evolve into new myths.