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Author: William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.
Posted on May 17, 2020

ののはな は…

かぜ は あこがれしていです.

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Posted on May 12, 2020

A Limerick On Lockdown

Hooray!

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Posted on May 12, 2020November 28, 2020

On The Twilight Of The Sun-Dawn Chorus

Riotous rise. Nefer-noon.

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Posted on May 4, 2020

Tanka #(? + One)

Did it?

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Posted on April 26, 2020

“You’re Not Gonna Help Me?”

?

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Posted on April 24, 2020

Will Be

I do wonder…

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Posted on April 24, 2020April 24, 2020

A Mem’ry Shared Between Us

Talk! Sing!

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Posted on April 22, 2020

The Ballad Of Elatklof Esrever

A blade a-bound by belt off-cuts abreast her left-side hip, her left hand on the pommel, placed above th’blue-banded grip.

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Posted on April 22, 2020

Without Death

Does it not realise?

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Posted on April 21, 2020

ぼくもあなたも (Both You & I)

われらはおなじゅうすりましたか?

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Posted on April 20, 2020

Tanka #?

In my left ear; in my right.

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Posted on April 19, 2020

To Close Out A Letter

Looking o’er toward the cranes…

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Posted on April 16, 2020

Café Front Garden

tooweeeh. tooweeh.

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Posted on April 12, 2020

Sat By Old John Cabot

Blow gentlesoft, pandemic breeze, ‘breast an unop’n’d tomb.

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Posted on April 9, 2020

Both The River & The Sky

As for me…

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