after visiting Genko Genkov's 100th anniversary exhibition
Can't take the coffee, sorry,
you can leave it here.
Genkov's one hundredth year
at the city gallery.
Stark oily purples echo off spacious white walls,
drowning all whispers,
strokes of trees like sisters,
dancing
and a red nude.
'He was nuts,' Tanya says,
but his art is sane.
He went to Paris with his wife
and opened his final exhibition two weeks before he died.
We point fingers at favourites
and the coffee's still warm.
Outside a cat, curled up
in the toddling sun.
Jan Hassmann earned his master's degree in English Literature from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and left immediately after to teach the very same at universities in Beijing and Kunming, China. Fifteen years later he returned to Europe, where he runs an amicable poetry club in Plovdiv, Bulgaria