SAN FRANCISCO POETS

Don Brennan
(1935 ~ March 18, 2013)

SPIRIT WALK Ears covered against a cold wind San Francisco feels like Alaska walking west toward the sea climbing from Mission Street over the hills to work early walking slow as a winter sun rain will return when it’s ready bottle brush and mulberry hold their leaves, encourage me wishing I could walk all day up these hills and down one step at a time mind clear as winter gazing at trees I could walk to the sea let work wait until tomorrow or another day, the wise ones say we don’t need money our souls are invisible on crystalline days between storms we are needless in essence crystalline in truth imperceptible between storms the wise ones, perceptive as a flight of gulls gliding along 24th Street join me in a cold wind bottle brush and mulberry hold tight to their leaves. © Don Brennan BARBARIA was published in June 1st 2009. Don Brennan serialized the book on his blog for you to read. some more of his poetry and other writings can be found there too. Don Brennen's blog

OLD WORLD CAFES Old world cafes tuck themselves into corners of the city where disengaged minds seek shelter, huddle like paranoid lambs cut off from the flock find some safety behind spotilly cleaned windows, warm and soft as morning sun filtering through from the street. Guitars strum without amps, Monk moves to the comforting beat of milk steaming. Old world cafes snuggled like refugee families into corners of the city, struggle to defy cynicism with wonton soup lasagna, falafal a computer or two. At tables of books and tea, scribbling in journals, peering at glasses of wine like newsprint, people in from the glaring streets interrupt one another grapple with sanity laugh aloud in several American languages. © Don Brennan

Don Brennan was born in San Francisco in 1935 and retired from high school teaching in 1990. He began reading
open mic poetry in 2000 after winning first prize in the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal contest (San Francisco).
Don Brennan's work has appeared in several journals, including Haight Ashbury, Minotaur, The Great American Poetry Show,
North Coast Review, The Throwback, Arnazella, Sacred Grounds Anthology,and Other Side of the Post Card (City Lights Anthology).
He has edited Two Anthologies : Tracks 07); Summit V(07). And has published 5 chapbooks: Amusing the Beast(2002);
Seasonal Work(2005); Extrodinary Pleasure(2006); Try Those Shoes(2006); Prelude to Uncertainty (2007).

Don Brennan died on March 18, 2014,
The themes of Don Brennan's finely crafted poetry were Peace, Nature, Love and Social Justice and though he rarely raised his voice.
he never failed to move the audience. Don was a fine man and one of the most respected writers in the SF Open Mic scene.

Ode to Allen Cohen by Don Brennan

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