February 2022
Bio Note: I resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. There've been over three hundred stories and poems published so far, and six books. I works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories, where I sit on the review board and manage a posse of nine review editors.
The Medallion
I’m not a superstitious man,
yet I’ve carefully kept this
close by me for decades.
A man in a curio shop
hidden in a Taipei alley
told me “Bring good luck.”
All else was gesture,
but I paid two dollars
for a bronze medallion
of a fat god on rice sacks.
I’ve never seen its likeness
and don’t even know its name,
but health and comfort
have been my lot since and
until I’m beyond needing either
the medallion abides with me.
©2022 Ed Ahern
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