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Category: Prose & poetry

Posted on Aug 12, 2018Sep 1, 2018

Time-Warped Scraps

Time-warped scraps – the dream continues on,
unphased by the approaching of its limits.

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Posted on Aug 9, 2018Jul 19, 2019

Their Stealthy Freedom: a poem for the women of Iran

Wearing, proud, the wind that weaves without,
and now within,
the wistless soul that falls out free across the shoulders.

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Posted on Jul 30, 2018Jul 30, 2018

Approaching Midnight

And here I am in that moment,
leafing through the scattered others.

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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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