May 2020
Bio Note: I resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales.
I've had over two hundred fifty stories and poems published so far, and six books. I work the other side of
writing at Bewildering Stories, where I sit on the review board and manage a posse of six review editors.
Lasting Impressions
I keep a slippery balance
on the melting ice of memory.
People I learned to hate
are often dead or irrelevant,
as are many greatly loved,
and both are misremembered.
But though their facts confuddle,
their impressions are seared in.
I am branded by remembrance.
©2020 Ed Ahern
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