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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on Jul 17, 2019

Will I Not Want Yet Still Want Not?

A day about the harbour. A night around a fire.

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Posted on Jul 15, 2019

Written Somewhere Sunny In The South-West

Momentum felt as sep’rate moments: such is time.

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Posted on Jul 14, 2019

Chapter list for The Floating Harbour

For All The Syllables, The Words…

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Posted on Jul 10, 2019Jul 10, 2019

Two Six Twelve Six Two

The sky encompasses the earth.

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Posted on Jul 9, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 5

Knaves and jesters, all.

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Posted on Jul 9, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 4

With sweet flowers, go.

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Posted on Jul 8, 2019Aug 14, 2019

Between That Postbox & Those Steps Beside The River

A river, there, reflects the moment.

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Posted on Jul 8, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 3

Paralysis of action.

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Posted on Jul 7, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 2

Stricken fair-lovelorn.

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Posted on Jul 7, 2019Jul 7, 2019

Rambling To Close

P’rhaps I’ll throw this out on WordPress.

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Posted on Jul 7, 2019

Hamlet In Haiku: Act 1

Alone in grief sustained.

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Posted on Jul 6, 2019

Oh… Well That Changes Things

Sounds, not syllables.

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Posted on Jul 6, 2019

Excerpts: a trailer for a novel

And all is rather still.

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Posted on Jul 4, 2019Dec 11, 2025

I Saw Three Leaves

Whither, whence, did the rolling wind take up those leaves?

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Posted on Jul 2, 2019

Again.

Somewhere. Somewhen.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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