Anchor
It took twenty horses
to lug me
through the shipyard
on the back of a cart
like a fifteen-and-a-half ton
pantomime dame.
My spitting image was weighed
on the other side of the bow:
two fat men in drag;
we felt as though no-one
could ever
bring us down. ↗
It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research. ↗
The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world. ↗