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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on Oct 3, 2021Oct 3, 2021

Sunrise – Day 1

Sunrise, then, o’er the city of the sceptre; dawn about the fort upon the chasm.

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Posted on Sep 30, 2021

A Trailer For A New Novella…

Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind…

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Posted on Sep 19, 2021

Invigilation

Mock SATs.

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Posted on Sep 13, 2021

Egypt & Industry: a novel novella

Ten days beyond a city sunrise.

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Posted on Sep 5, 2021

新しいの日

山は安いです.

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Posted on Aug 31, 2021

Sketch (Fourth Coming)

A water flower.

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Posted on Aug 28, 2021

Upon The Floodplains Of The Nile

Crocodiles hold union on the marsh.

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Posted on Aug 25, 2021Aug 25, 2021

A Ballad Here On Wapping Wharf

Upon the breeze, life’s sounds did sail; the people pottered past.

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Posted on Aug 24, 2021

Milk Stout

Mapped o’er.

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Posted on Aug 21, 2021Aug 21, 2021

Asking/Begging

As with those others, I’ll not help you.

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Posted on Aug 19, 2021Aug 19, 2021

An Encounter

Evening wander…

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Posted on Aug 18, 2021Aug 18, 2021

Sketch (A Further; Third)

Unpetalled, blank papyrus.

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Posted on Aug 14, 2021Aug 14, 2021

Merchant’s Hall Tanka

Brick bears beams bear rooftiles.

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Posted on Aug 13, 2021

Postcard Poetry

The stained-glass panes, that stretched to reach the heavens, shone.

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Posted on Aug 11, 2021Aug 25, 2021

A Sonnet To York’s Grand Cathedral

Sunfire shines glist’ning through the scriptured glass to light the southern rose ‘n Yorkshire’s heart!

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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