Haunting Bartok,
Silhouettes in slow motion.
Rebuilt Chain Bridge,
Testimony to renewal.
Shadow feet walks city street,
To haunting boots, shoes,
At river's edge,
Tramp to oblivion,
Memorial to an obscene last act
by Danube's chill waters,
An end and beginning.
Deeply ironic resurrection,
Of those whose elimination took them
into the water-of-life for the perpetrators.
(or: from death to life-giving
in the enemy's midst.)
Poet with his life reduced
To darkness, certain death,
Still wrote verses on scraps
Shoved in his pocket.
Future exhumation made them
Identifiers after his disintegration.
Immortalised in words and bronze.
Statues transmuted from oppression,
Super-human inaccessibility,
To relaxed, human proportions.
Powerful in their informality,
None-threatening but always challenging.
Edward Petherbridge's Budapest.
An iphone production of montage,
Shadows and ripples.
Gentle voice alliterating,
Rhythmically playing with
Language, light.
Expanding pathos, drama.
Exposing fundamental paradoxes.
Another moving, revelatory gem.
New technology performance art
Provoking irresistible response.
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