Ed Ahern
Spring Feedings
The bread scattered for house sparrows
is plucked by a murder of crows.
The peanuts strewn for the squirrels
are absconded with by blue jays.
Table scraps left out for the possums
are (judging by odor) eaten by skunks.
My chosen dinner guests get hungrier
while the party crashers feast al fresco,
reminiscent of family gatherings,
corporate outings, and vacations
where the ill-favored unwanted
drain the bar and gobble the desserts.
Ed Ahern resumed writing after forty-odd years in foreign intelligence and international sales. He’s had over 600 stories and poems published, and twelve books. He’s on the review board at Scribes Micro, and is the idle figurehead at Scribes Micro.