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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on Aug 29, 2022Aug 29, 2022

A Sonnet Here At Robin Hood’s Bay

Sunhat ‘n crabbing bucket – rock-pool girl! She watches where her sandaled-feet stone-stand.

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Posted on Aug 26, 2022Aug 30, 2022

Bamburgh Castle Viewing

Cuthbert’s hermitage surrounded: seals slipslide ‘n slumber strandside.

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Posted on Aug 22, 2022

Begging

I’m in two minds.

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Posted on Aug 12, 2022

At Shambles’ End

A-shambling through the queue.

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Posted on Aug 6, 2022

The Cross, The Star, & The Crescent Moon

Three men (dark-eyed) at th’fire’s edge.

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Posted on Aug 1, 2022

On York’s Waterway

Yah nough, don’t yuh?

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Posted on Jul 9, 2022

Coffee & Pineapple Juice

I’ve left some leaflets ‘n some booklets.

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Posted on Jul 3, 2022

Entropy In Motion

The steam; the surface.

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Posted on Jun 29, 2022

Where The Whisting Waves Die Heavy On The Stilling Sand

Climatic clarity! Emergency emergent ‘cross – awash tsunamic – th’sea of consciousness…

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Posted on Jun 25, 2022

Settled

Beings who know themselves.

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Posted on Jun 13, 2022

A Prologue To Hansel & Gretel

Here – once ‘n ever on a time – amongst the wanderings of wolves…

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Posted on Jun 11, 2022

Verse (Brief ‘N Free) From Hay-On-Wye

HHhOHff! grrererrrrururr?!

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Posted on Jun 3, 2022Jun 12, 2022

雨; 雪

空が話きす.

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Posted on Jun 2, 2022Jun 2, 2022

At The Old Electric Shop

The crow in the cage cawcackles.

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Posted on Jun 1, 2022

Eleven

The time hits twelve; the time turns past.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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