Gil Hoy

Shopping at 500 Stalls in Market 28, Downtown Cancun

When you’re anti-social,

with a dynamic, welcoming,
alluring wife who delights
in shopping,

it’s like a Stephen King novel,
in halogen lights,

with one million bulbs.


Gil Hoy is a Boston poet who studied poetry at Boston University. Hoy’s poetry has appeared, or will be appearing, most recently in Mobius, Tipton Poetry Journal, Chiron Review, MisfitMagazine, The New Verse News, The Penmen Review and One Sentence Poems.