Richard Denner is a prolific writer who lives near Sebastopol, California. He was for many years the proprietor of Fourwinds Bookstore and Café in Ellensburg, Washington, and the manager of a Tibetan Buddhist Dharma store for Tara Mandala Retreat Center in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. In his spare time, he publishes dpress chapbooks. 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).

Night of Mystic Rain by Richard Denner I have been watching a cat and now it's dark and the cat appears blue and yearning with claws ready to scratch the night I am going out to look for you on the bench in the park expecting to find you wrapped in newsprint alone and sleeping red in the dark Rain in the yellow trees there is a song under the table I have enough love to make the stars ache and I can afford to I buy the silence I become