Poem: ‘Love and the Aeroplane’
Neil Rennie, 8 November 1979
A Tropical Voyage Trade mirrors for the chiefs’ faces, combs and soap are piled on deck. In two lines of sailor hats, the boatboys sing a native song to Ideal milk and bully-beef in shining tins, while underneath the launch the waves change places in a series, each with another one the same.
Tess Trueheart with Tracy in a Plantation At a number of points across the slanted lines of...