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Posted on December 21, 2019December 21, 2019

That Way, For Him, Adventure Lies: extracts from The Floating Harbour

The seagulls, too: they screech in semi-reliably recorded history.

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Posted on December 19, 2019

The Hunter Sits: extracts from The Floating Harbour

Such keen eyes, such keen resolve.

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Posted on December 19, 2019December 19, 2019

The River Keeps Me Company: extracts from The Floating Harbour

I watch her and she’s wistless as she weaves and waves again.

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Posted on November 24, 2019

To Bristol Town!

P’rhaps we won’t stop anymore, now there’s no space – seat or floor.

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Posted on November 21, 2019

A(n updated) Bristol Series

I have, these recent years, fallen, somehow, in to writing about Bristol over and over again.

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Posted on November 16, 2019

A Tanka Of Titles In Acronym

FOTABTFOTN.

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Posted on November 3, 2019November 3, 2019

The Ballad Of Stokes Croft: a song of poems

It is a song of poems – different parts in different verse throughout a night exchanging stories.

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Posted on November 2, 2019November 14, 2019

A Last Request

Let me/it, at last, then, rise, buffeted by sound-waves.

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Posted on October 23, 2019

Another Moment Here ‘N Then

The breeze feels like an echo of a cold too cold to bear, as the gull glides on its currents and the waves of winter light.

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Posted on October 20, 2019October 20, 2019

Excerpts: a trailer for a ballad

Each of us with tales ‘n layered lives to be disclosed…

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Posted on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019

The Treasure Of The Pied Crow

Pied white ‘n dull-green ‘n shim’ring black, treasuring the trove you’ve gathered.

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Posted on October 8, 2019October 8, 2019

Zappai In ‘N On Stokes Croft

The road’s become community.

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Posted on September 30, 2019September 30, 2019

A Bristol Series

Poetry, prose…

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Posted on September 24, 2019September 24, 2019

The Kingfisher

The orange-breasted kingfisher keeps the wall in feathers.

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Posted on September 19, 2019September 19, 2019

Someday(.)?

I should (someday) write while on that journey.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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