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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on Feb 28, 2020

For The Lady In The Dulcet-Hued Bandana

The wisps of orange marshal light amidst the blue.

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Posted on Feb 25, 2020

A Sonnet On The Surface Of My Coffee

Now sparse the signs of entropied life sit, floating despite th’impossibility.

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Posted on Feb 22, 2020

Reflecting On The Recent Present

Through glass: the tiles, in rain-swept sick.

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Posted on Feb 18, 2020Feb 18, 2020

A Tanka By The Banks(a)

Hikari…

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Posted on Feb 14, 2020

Some Blank Verse, In Which I Indirectly State That The Sunlight Fills The Room

Now mourned’s the passing peace of night, its flight flown with the scorching licks of star-fire at its torn ‘n frayed heels.

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Posted on Feb 13, 2020Feb 13, 2020

Am ‘N Will Be

Already.

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Posted on Feb 10, 2020Dec 6, 2020

To Reach Through Glass ‘N Time

The pane that stands between millennia.

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Posted on Feb 9, 2020

Zappai For A Person Passing

Light a-righted.

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Posted on Feb 8, 2020

To See The World Through Quartz ‘N Ash

Caravan; road; canopy.

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Posted on Feb 6, 2020

A Sonnet To The Art Of Writing

Creation pained; a look that’s lost, or hid…

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Posted on Feb 2, 2020Feb 2, 2020

Aaytthurrteefoorpee-em

[Inhale.] [Exhale.]

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Posted on Jan 27, 2020

A Journey, Ubiquitous

‘Ray’byun camels c’lect their stores in sanded, varnished vista.

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Posted on Jan 26, 2020

Leaves Of Mind

Th’river’s crossed.

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Posted on Jan 19, 2020Jan 19, 2020

A Flow’r Upon A Grave

Shape ‘n send forw’d the currents riv’ring by! With your time-warped scraps the bed doth lie suffused!

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Posted on Jan 14, 2020

At The Entrance Of The Afternoon

Flame stands in its ungentle passing.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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