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Posted on December 21, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Azrael

She sits, head in hands.

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Posted on November 6, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Paradise

The child said: Was it The Accursed who sent you? Was it God?

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Posted on October 22, 2023

Song Of Palestine – This Land Is Mine

D’you see God in th’pillars of fire that make this land their own?

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Posted on December 15, 2020

The Death Of Cleopatra

Unkempt, the pharaoh’s hair, dark as the diskless sky, did dress her form.

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Posted on April 24, 2020

Will Be

I do wonder…

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Posted on April 22, 2020

Without Death

Does it not realise?

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Posted on April 6, 2020

Without Life

Does it not realise?

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Posted on January 5, 2020

Others

Not.

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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 May 30, 2019

Death Indifferent

The Lord, to me (supposedly).

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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