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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on Feb 8, 2022

Weston-Super-Mare

Shattering the feedback-loop!

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Posted on Jan 26, 2022

Café Back Garden

I’m trapped at home again.

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Posted on Jan 23, 2022

A Second Scrap Of Notes-Gone-By

That’ll be distracting.

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Posted on Jan 21, 2022

A Scrap Of Notes-Gone-By

In one ear ‘n out the other.

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Posted on Jan 20, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: Epilogue

I told her of the stag of memory; of th’earth; of private moments lived; of th’night.

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Posted on Jan 19, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: III

With gracile step, agilic poise, ‘n purity he’d leapt from th’dark off to my right-side.

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Posted on Jan 18, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: II

I see myself still strolling.

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Posted on Jan 17, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: I

Lapped waves wash, broken-crested – I am young.

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Posted on Jan 16, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: Prologue

T’was o’er ‘n through this coastly scene we traced the tracks of mem’ry.

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Posted on Jan 9, 2022

?後

I perform great feats.

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Posted on Dec 27, 2021

I Saw The Girl-Child, Standing

A blaze-blue spirit, wonder-rapt.

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Posted on Dec 26, 2021

A Welsh Christmas

Three wetsuit-wearers, dog, and I.

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Posted on Dec 14, 2021

The Song Of Seshat

Endless as the fires of night.

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Posted on Dec 12, 2021

Another Poem

I write another poem for to reassure someone (Me?) that nothing will hinder.

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Posted on Nov 30, 2021

Perhaps

Ends; begins. Writ; collected.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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