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Posted on December 20, 2020

10.34pm

I write these words to end a tanka.

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Posted on November 5, 2020November 19, 2020

A Song Of Molly Owen

T’was where I was standing, with Molly wavin’.

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Posted on November 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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Posted on July 8, 2019August 14, 2019

Between That Postbox & Those Steps Beside The River

A river, there, reflects the moment.

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Posted on March 10, 2019

It Was Life

It’s a long, long way away,
no matter how you hold it.

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Posted on March 9, 2019

L.T.D.

Perhaps you know it all already. Do you?

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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