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Posted on Dec 19, 2019Dec 19, 2019

The River Keeps Me Company: extracts from The Floating Harbour

I watch her and she’s wistless as she weaves and waves again.

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Posted on Dec 16, 2019Dec 17, 2020

The Birth Day Of The Sun: Part II

Soundless stands each stretch of houses.

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Posted on Dec 10, 2019

The Birth Day Of The Sun: Part I

Bayit-Lekhem in wintrous calm as coarsest night kills evening.

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Posted on Dec 8, 2019

Write

Boku wa…

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Posted on Dec 6, 2019

Rittun Langwidj

Gotta. Gonna. Wanna.

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Posted on Dec 5, 2019

Approach (Haiku)

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Posted on Nov 27, 2019

] ] ] ] ] or, A Poem Perched In Poco

The candle on the island lights the moving, glass-bound muse.

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Posted on Nov 26, 2019Nov 26, 2019

Fifty-Seven Minutes

Where is the poetry and where’s the poet that it clasps to?

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Posted on Nov 25, 2019

Wirdz: uh zapaye

Play, pleigh, puhley.

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Posted on Nov 25, 2019

Adagio… Hanging There, Unwav’ring

O’er th’aural landscape rest the guiding waves.

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Posted on Nov 24, 2019

To Bristol Town!

P’rhaps we won’t stop anymore, now there’s no space – seat or floor.

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Posted on Nov 21, 2019

A(n updated) Bristol Series

I have, these recent years, fallen, somehow, in to writing about Bristol over and over again.

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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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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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