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Posted on September 22, 2020

A Tanka For A Friend

このぶんしょはむしろいきます.

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Posted on September 21, 2020

The Matthew Spreads Its Wings

In screeching seagull song sounds out senescent afternoon.

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Posted on September 16, 2020

On The 16th Of September

The road runs riv’ring currents, coursing crashless swirls of traffic.

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Posted on September 14, 2020

WhatsApp Waka

Park. River.

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Posted on September 13, 2020

Sunrise By The Banks Of A River

In age-long decades past rises the gilt Zimbabwe sun, the gutt’ral summons resonating – roaring – deep.

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Posted on September 10, 2020

Signing Off

Coffee stains.

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Posted on September 1, 2020

Let Linger Onward

Its summer scene of hours passed.

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Posted on August 31, 2020

A Tanka On The Surface Of My Coffee

In spreadhaze hue…

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Posted on August 25, 2020August 25, 2020

A Song Of Thoth & Merit

“The cosmos, then, was chaos…”

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Posted on August 24, 2020

Tanka Taken From A Tree-Trunk

King Will’yum walks, in wettened-sand.

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Posted on August 24, 2020August 24, 2020

Bath Senryu

I held her.

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Posted on August 19, 2020

Long Division

Sentence by sentence.

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Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020

Boston Tea Party Senryu

Senryu & haiga.

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Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

Haiga

Art ‘n poetry.

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Posted on August 13, 2020August 13, 2020

Poor Choice

A habit making heat-wave worse.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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