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Posted on June 10, 2021June 10, 2021

Cynghanedd In Blank-Verse

Th’waste rain-fall flows, fitfully free, unto sea o’er reams of language earth-born.

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Posted on April 16, 2021

A Week Ago Today, I Travelled Through

I switch from now to then; from then to now.

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Posted on March 8, 2021June 29, 2021

Hymn To The City Of The Sceptre

Your wealth extends to awe all foreign lands! Your pious worship deeply pleases all our divine hosts, who bless our lives with Ma’at!

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Posted on February 14, 2020

Some Blank Verse, In Which I Indirectly State That The Sunlight Fills The Room

Now mourned’s the passing peace of night, its flight flown with the scorching licks of star-fire at its torn ‘n frayed heels.

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Posted on June 23, 2019June 23, 2019

Poems At The Place Between Commitments

To a-waiting ideas, then, return.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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