There are moments like
the first flush of a shower.
hot thoughtlets spraying
in anonymous cascade
over a fallow pause
in a constricted mind,
savoring the absence
of import or consequence.

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had about 700 stories and poems published so far, and fifteen books. He works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories where he’s a review board editor and at Scribes Micro, where he’s the idle figurehead.