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Author: William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.
Posted on Nov 21, 2019

; ? : . or, A Sedoka On The Explaining Of The Concept & Feeling Of Love To A Young Child

Just what love is; just what it means.

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Posted on Nov 19, 2019

On My Nihongo

Tanka/Tanka.

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Posted on Nov 18, 2019Nov 18, 2019

Ephem’ral Immortality

Somestuff to present to whomsoever ever reads it.

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Posted on Nov 17, 2019

Jazz/Outside Observance Only

A gaze a-gaze across the fold.

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Posted on Nov 16, 2019

A Tanka Of Titles In Acronym

FOTABTFOTN.

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Posted on Nov 12, 2019

The Wall’s Another Canvas

Take syllabic space ‘n empty it of possibility.

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Posted on Nov 10, 2019Nov 10, 2019

Akirakanisuru

Lying, list’ning.

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Posted on Nov 10, 2019

Tanka Tanka Zappai

Write it; move on.

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Posted on Nov 9, 2019Nov 9, 2019

Canopus

Vissuhrah entoombed; brightist star.

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Posted on Nov 4, 2019

Tanka Desune

Watashidake.

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Posted on Nov 3, 2019Nov 3, 2019

The Ballad Of Stokes Croft: a song of poems

It is a song of poems – different parts in different verse throughout a night exchanging stories.

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Posted on Nov 2, 2019Nov 14, 2019

A Last Request

Let me/it, at last, then, rise, buffeted by sound-waves.

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Posted on Oct 31, 2019Oct 31, 2019

A Pint Of Gluten-Free

I have/I will have written in the waves of echoed song.

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Posted on Oct 28, 2019

Dependent On A Crashing Wave Of Fire

A spring begets a stream becomes a river raising tides.

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Posted on Oct 24, 2019Dec 22, 2019

Shumba Hadzi

A gradual, rolling rumble from few spots on the horizon brings a chorus for the dawn to sail its orange sunlight o’er.

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