Gentle Moments

There is a love that goes into hiding

behind a stare of incomprehension,

beneath a lessoned consciousness.

But in the quiet, gentle moments

of small kindnesses received,

the eyes widen in affection.

A crocus from frozen ground

Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had 550 stories and poems published so far, and twelve books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories where he manages a posse of six review editors.