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Regrets

Gil Hoy

I remember tenth grade
English class. An Irish girl,
Renee Hogan, with reddish
brown hair. We had to write
a poem, then read it to the class.

She wrote about a failed man
who drank too much and smoked
too much. He liked to hang out
in alleys and in parks. He approached
her one day in a park in Harvard Square:
“Can you spare 50 cents and a kiss,
sweet sister? Just 50 cents and a kiss
for a song.”

I never spoke a word to Renee Hogan.
My tongue always got in the way.
I don’t know where she is today.
I hear she still likes to write. I was
her first true fan. She was my first
true love. That girl could write.

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