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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on May 12, 2019

In Tomorrow’s Place

I will have missed it.

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Posted on May 11, 2019

To One: Beginning. To The Other: Ending.

Isn’t/wasn’t/won’t be.

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Posted on May 11, 2019

Those Other Words

Too tailored; too soon.

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Posted on May 8, 2019

&

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Posted on May 4, 2019May 4, 2019

A Day In The Life

Awaken.

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Posted on May 1, 2019

So April Ends & May Begins

Even as (ephemeral) the winter’s apogee takes Easter on and, late, chase they the heels of Autumn.

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Posted on Apr 30, 2019

Gift’s Emergence

Onto prophets by the fire and the knowledge gleaned from that.

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Posted on Apr 28, 2019

Let Flickers (Of Flame)

There is ash beneath the wood consumed by flame.

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Posted on Apr 18, 2019

Ay Fyoo Highcooz

Simplir Inglish.

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Posted on Apr 18, 2019Apr 18, 2019

Waters, Whatever

Whatever the width.

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Posted on Apr 17, 2019Apr 18, 2019

A Short Demonstration

Really.

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Posted on Apr 17, 2019Apr 18, 2019

S’not Nonsense; S’meaningful

I’ll invent, I’ll introduce, innovative idioms.

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Posted on Apr 12, 2019Aug 14, 2019

Bristol

You are my favourite place.

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Posted on Apr 11, 2019

Life’s A

Life’s a wander ’round the harbourside.

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Posted on Apr 9, 2019

Reception

Will it be as the still air?

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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