It All Begins: Poems from Postliberation South Africa Book

	The Sugar Cane Cutter	3
	Lines for Vincent	5
	In a pool of water ...	7
	Tikoloshe	11
	The Stubborn Death	12
	Impression	12
	Flesh	13
	The Hunger Striker	14
	The Funeral of Anton Fransch	16
	I Will Call Your Name	19
	Things change	20
	How will I trust?	23
	Tamed	24
	Slovo's Short Freedom	27
	Xstacy	28
	Welcome to the New Consciousness	29
	Ministers to the Toothless	31
	Reconciliation	32
	Mandela, Have You Ever Wondered?	34
	Impassable Bridge	35
	The Graduate	36
	Raid!	37
	from Giyani Block	38
	Land	41
	The Intangible	42
	Can't stand, can't dance	43
	Ten flapping elbows, mama	44
	Mom finds dead daisies ...	48
	Overlooking the Block	50
	From the Isando On-ramp	51
	The Silver Piece	52
	Hijacker	54
	I Hate my Bank Manager	55
	Paper boat	56
	Once in time you're robbed all over	57
	Sunset	58
	Seaworthy	59
	A new language	60
	Memory	71
	Rifle Range	72
	Rita	73
	Mother's Chickens	75
	Still life With plane-trees	76
	The Naming Journey	78
	Tenda	81
	The dream of the blind child	82
	Betrayal	84
	from Foretelling	86
	Nonhlanhla is Gone	89
	The girl who then feared to sleep	90
	Heart's Hunger	95
	The Proper Use of Flowers	98
	Waking	99
	Shadow to the sun	100
	Little Land	101
	She	103
	Last Memories of Magdalene	104
	When it rains like this, like this	106
	Times are I'm afraid of this Death	107
	I took the picture	108
	The Tenant	110
	SleepStroker	111
	In the moonlight	112
	Brush stroke	113
	Your smile is a sudden bird	114
	Making Things	116
	We Jive Like This	121
	Mah boy stah	123
	Sonnet for Darryl Roodt	124
	Touting Taxi	125
	Botsotsos	127
	Karoo Bathtime	128
	Lydia Lindeque's Story	129
	For the oral	131
	Aaron, weeping	133
	The Ghost Echo	136
	A painting by Vermeer	138
	Leaves to a tree	140
	A Shred of identity	144
	This Morning Nigger	145
	We who are wise	149
	The Sound of the Stars	150
	Song of the Broken String	151
	The question	153
	Song of Beauty	155
	A small wind, breathing	156
	Cape Town, Jerusalem	157
	De Terach Hammer	159
	Gardens	160
	The sky is on fire tonight ...	162
	The loveliest song, she says ...	162
	Incarnate eternity	163
	The sun used to be white	167
	Delirium	169
	I thank you Dlomo	179
	Black Mamba Rising	184
	To Gil Scott-Heron	188
	I cannot think of all the pains	190
	The Rotten Fruit	191
	Even the Dead	192
	Mental Explosion	198
	Cain, cain	200
	Comrades, Don't We Delude Ourselves?	202
	Bonus	207
	Harare	208
	River Robert	209
	It all begins	211
	Notes on the Poets and titles of their books of poems	213
	Afterword	225
	South African Poetry Magazines and Bookshops	233
	Index	237