Robert Halleck

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Hugs No Kisses

He ran into her
at the post office.
She gave him a hug.
He asked about her mother and
their son who ignores his emails.
She asked about the dog and
told him he needed to marry again.
She gave him another hug.
I loved you, he thought,
More than I showed.
I'm sorry for that.

Robert Halleck fills his retirement years with open mic poetry readings, hospice volunteering, and racing Marlene, his old but still sturdy Porsche. In recent years his poems have appeared in the San Diego Poetry Annuals and a number of other interesting places that show up in a Google search. In the past 50 years 3 volumes of his poems have been published.