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Posted on Feb 2, 2025

One Hundred Years In But A Moment

A century has passed in full
these last twelve months…

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Posted on Feb 1, 2025

From Here To When?

Where to from here?

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Posted on Feb 25, 2024

You Are An Elegy, My Child

Irradiate; sublime!

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Posted on Nov 19, 2023Nov 19, 2023

Song Of Palestine – For The Child; For The Children

You’ll never know it.

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Posted on Aug 21, 2023

A Sedoka On Loss

In shedding lay’rs, unmade.

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Posted on Dec 27, 2021

I Saw The Girl-Child, Standing

A blaze-blue spirit, wonder-rapt.

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Posted on Jun 18, 2021

From One Notebook To Another

Whate’er shall I write next?

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Posted on Nov 21, 2019

; ? : . or, A Sedoka On The Explaining Of The Concept & Feeling Of Love To A Young Child

Just what love is; just what it means.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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