The Lost Poets of Caffe Trieste, SF CA.

GATHERINGS REMEMBERED

for the lost poets of caffe trieste: alan(RIP) buford, jordonna, 

mark, owen, perry, and steve-o.

We gathered almost every day

for a few years, lines of poetry traded and declaimed

additions

subtraction

of words and images, bantering  back and forth

following North Beach traditions of long ago

each of us with a page

to present or complain about,

verse building upon verse

little slices of everyday life coming together in dashes of ink or pencil,

wine, coffee, Cokes, pastries, pizza, burgers,

consumed between exposition

and our edited dreams and books read and re-read.

Change came as it always does

one of us now traveling in some other world,

but still we bring hundreds of books, hundreds of poets 

to talk about late into San Francisco nights,

throwing out

short lines

long ones

bad ones

good ones

unheard ones

Top Notch ones!

Owen’s Villanelles

Steve’s vignettes

Ed’s rain and fire-escapes

Jordonna’s tomes

Mark’s classic meters

Alan’s economic musings

all our packaged series of moments, now part history,

now part daydream

moving

living

ongoing...