Angels In The Snow

Ivan “Nino" Kamalic was an oil painter who made a lovely painting of the Twin Towers prior to the tragedy of 9/11/2001. Apparently there were children playing in the snow nearby, making snow angels, and they pleaded with him not to “step on their angels.” So he was indeed careful, and you can see the snow angels in his painting. Years later, after 9/11/2001, the painter wrote a poem about his painting, and a few years after that he asked me to write a song about his poem. Nino transformed the ugliness and terror of that day into a lesson he learned from the children.

Here’s Nino’s poem: Towers in the magic mist…Reaching up in the sky with long brush, An artist stood. A touch of blue … Purple haze … Silver hue. Up and down the snowflakes fell, on the snow angel’s covered hill. Help me angels! How to convey this grief, this feeling of dismay… this void of love, the empty hole … Anger! … And I promise: I will never step on snow angels!

Paintings available at the Ivan N Kamalic Gallery at 8B main St, Rockport MA 978 546 2654 gallery@kamalic.com

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