Friday, March 12, 2021

VINCENT TRIPI ~

 




With her pan

     the old prospector

          points upward


                              — for Laura Bell






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Vincent Tripi

the day i find

poems from a desert hermitage

1725 Marion Avenue, Apt 12-I.

Novato, CA. 



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according to his inscription, Vincent

sent me a gift of this fine book of short

poems when he was living in Novato, CA.,

and come to think of it Sweetheart and I

passed through there some years earlier —

I believe Vincent even tried to look us up

in Vermont when he was living just down

river from us but I guess he got lost, as

others have, long before GPS took the fun

out of everything — Vincent passed away

last Fall and I'm thinking about him now


[ BA ]