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Empty Beach
Ed Ahern
Early morning is the time of absences
and the unsettling of unique presence,
when up and down the churning surf ribbon
only straggled birds and bubbling clams
hold haphazard position in emptiness
and the lone biped, ignored as insignificant,
feels his fusty persona leaching out
on the windblown sand over green water
until the purging reveals a raw loneliness
that must be poulticed with the spit of others.
Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had about 500 stories and poems published so far, and ten books. Ed works the other side of writing at Bewildering Stories where he manages a posse of seven review editors, and as lead editor at Scribes Micro.
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