Corrine De Winter has been a freelance writer for about 19 years. Her work has been published in over 600 journals, books and magazines including New York Quarterly, The Writer, Space & Time, Tales of the Unanticipated, The Other Side, Yankee, Prisoners of the Night, Poet's Market 92-99, and others. Her work has been nominated twice for The Pushcart Prize and most recently for The Rhysling Award. 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).

Moon of Strong Cold by Corrine De Winter Ivory limbs. The summer dark wolves are hidden by winter among the hemlocks. Air burns my lungs. You pull me across the broken snow, past the question mark crows. The buzzards circle to descend on fallen deer. You pull me through the tangle of bittersweet, pale and half-eaten. Hungry birds. Loose feathers past the railroad tracks- Your hands pull me on toward the enclosure. Ghosts from our mouths Your hands pull me onward to the stigmata you could not cease, the body risen clear and white by the wayward frost heaves.