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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on Mar 17, 2024

The Dancing Of The Earth-Sprung

Lenape. Manaháhtaan. Palestinians. Palestine.

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Posted on Mar 14, 2024

Song Of Palestine – The Embroidery Of Filasṭīn

Breathe the folklore; olive-oil ‘n -wood; the love-song ‘n the poetry.

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Posted on Mar 10, 2024

Song Of Palestine – They Massacred The Ones They Brought To Hunger

Hell between the aid trucks ‘n the nascent dawn…

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Posted on Feb 25, 2024

You Are An Elegy, My Child

Irradiate; sublime!

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Posted on Feb 23, 2024Feb 23, 2024

Isis, Su-Tekh, & The Falcon-Child: XII

The Aten dazzles all!

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Posted on Feb 22, 2024Feb 22, 2024

Isis, Su-Tekh, & The Falcon-Child: XI

The Evil Of The End Of All Things comes
inevitable on the heels of time!

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Posted on Feb 20, 2024Feb 20, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Awaken

That patterned scarf…

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Posted on Feb 19, 2024

Isis, Su-Tekh, & The Falcon-Child: X

T’ward th’lapwing th’baboon trots. Back to his shoulder she descends, as th’roaming dead assault the fens…

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Posted on Feb 19, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Lamentation For Rafah

Lament for me upon the edge of Egypt.

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Posted on Feb 18, 2024

There Are, Now, More Than Two Of Us

My left-hand cradleholds your skull.

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Posted on Feb 12, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Gazan Haiku

Petals bright.

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Posted on Feb 11, 2024

Isis, Su-Tekh, & The Falcon-Child: IX

In his own hand (his left) he takes up a stalk. “Your red heart I’ll pierce, after tearing through your chest!”

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Posted on Feb 9, 2024

Sleeping Child Of Many Day-Dreams

You are here.

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Posted on Jan 30, 2024

Sierran Sonnet

Across America on wiccan wings, riding ‘pon the heatwaves of fiddle-fire!

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Posted on Jan 24, 2024Jan 24, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Never Again; Again

This design lies deep within our marrow; plays its pull upon our sinews still.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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