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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on Apr 6, 2018Aug 16, 2019

To Softly Settle In The Sweeping Wake

And so it begins again, the collection of dust.

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Posted on May 8, 2016Jul 19, 2019

Absent The White Roses: on monuments in deeper history

Nothing beside remains. Something beside remains.

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Posted on Feb 19, 2016Sep 2, 2018

Coexistence

I have, for so long now, found so little wild, so few pockets without their shadow, and so few of the wilder, natural prey. They are not within my grasp.

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Posted on Feb 14, 2016Jun 29, 2017

Go Tell The Gods

Trying, some desperately, some half-heartedly, to weave themselves back into the web that they severed themselves, at once with vicious intent and complete indifference, from.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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