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Posted on July 31, 2021

Sky Lines

A plane; a swallow.

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Posted on July 27, 2021

On King Street

The Trow’s resuscitated – see the blackwhite gable draped along in hanging baskets.

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Posted on July 24, 2021

Heatwaved Harbour

The searsome sun seethes heathaze.

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Posted on July 19, 2021

The Crossmaker

A crossmaker – Yesh’wa constructed th’means by which the legion stamped impeer’yul boots on his own people.

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Posted on July 13, 2021

Permanence Obscene

Where once I was I am no more – no longer does that me exist.

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Posted on July 11, 2021

Penned In Pensford

Lapped at by the coursing mirrored-sky.

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Posted on July 10, 2021

Kanagawa

Their lines stretch finite.

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Posted on July 7, 2021

Pit Stop

Gilt African.

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Posted on July 6, 2021

On The Scene Without This Café

The rails run.

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Posted on June 29, 2021November 10, 2024

Nafereti-Iti: Book One

The final days of Nefertiti’s childhood.

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Posted on June 27, 2021

A Tanka For The Pigeons Having Sex

Pigeon plays his puff-chest charm.

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Posted on June 20, 2021

Wreflected

I write; I drink; I’m passed through.

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Posted on June 18, 2021

From One Notebook To Another

Whate’er shall I write next?

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Posted on June 14, 2021

Shumba Famba

Verdant-vivid is the tall grass.

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Posted on June 10, 2021June 10, 2021

Cynghanedd In Blank-Verse

Th’waste rain-fall flows, fitfully free, unto sea o’er reams of language earth-born.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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