He wears his Dad’s black hat
on his salt and pepper hair
cascading to his shoulders
and manages to survive
persistent in his efforts
for his father’s name be known
in the expansive world of art –
ART AGAINST OBLIVION.
He loves colourful garb
contrasting with strong
coloured scarves
a Toucan bird of the Americas
he travelled once extensively.
Thru’ rimless glasses he observes
the world around him
inviting the Young and Elder to
his well-known Art-Shop
the name he still prefers.
Gregarious critical persistent
in achieving to be known
administering an incredible
treasure of over 250 oil paintings –
Forceful mementos of the Holocaust
with over 1000 drawings –
but also portraits and scenes
from Coffee house societies.
He lived for promoting his father’s
art pivoting around the Holocaust
whose infernal state still leaps
in blazing flames from his canvas:
The inferno that gripped his heart
all his remaining life.
A living memorial in midst the
cobbled Square of Judenplatz –
Place du Juif.
His repetitive traveling to Bratislava
beloved city to him like to his father
who painted its distant views
with the four-towering castle
the Jewish Quarter
the Inner City
Venturska Street.
As funds cease to keep the
ART FORUM going
friends and honorable helpers
assemble to say
good-bye but also filed with
hope that recent press appeals
to Cultural politics of the city
and the land
will bear fruit to loan the
unique collection for
sponsored shows rather
than allow it to be tossed
into an archive’s existence.
Good luck Tommy and Inge.
zoltanzelan
ZJG-POetry’17.
