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Tag: Music

Posted on Jan 30, 2024

Sierran Sonnet

Across America on wiccan wings, riding ‘pon the heatwaves of fiddle-fire!

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Posted on Apr 2, 2021

Shimmershine

“More to see! The child who eats the twisting treat; the gull who rides the unseen surf.”

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Posted on Oct 12, 2020

Flicker, Silent Voice

In confinement – self ‘n solitary –
there sits a child.

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Posted on Aug 25, 2020Aug 25, 2020

A Song Of Thoth & Merit

“The cosmos, then, was chaos…”

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Posted on Jul 16, 2020

In Café Napolita

Is masked th’moon’s cratered plight beyond the wisp-white atmosphere.

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Posted on Mar 21, 2020

Quarantine Blues #1 & #2

Two streams of consciousness.

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Posted on Mar 2, 2020Feb 26, 2026

Three Tanka; Many Words

A dragon’s hide.

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Posted on Mar 1, 2020Mar 1, 2020

A Tanka For The Spring To Come

Image credit – Japan Objects

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Posted on Jan 7, 2020Jan 9, 2020

The Rayd’yo Sings In Snippets

[Heartbeat.]

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Posted on Nov 25, 2019

Adagio… Hanging There, Unwav’ring

O’er th’aural landscape rest the guiding waves.

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Posted on Nov 10, 2019Nov 10, 2019

Akirakanisuru

Lying, list’ning.

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Posted on Sep 23, 2019

A Page Left Blank In Stokes Croft

How do you spell music?

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Posted on Oct 15, 2018Oct 15, 2018

The Sound-Waves Wander Onward

The same big band, the same man’s voice.

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Posted on Aug 16, 2015Jun 29, 2017

The Beatles are not overrated, and you’re not being interesting by saying that they are

Nobody has ever come to the conclusion that The Beatles are overrated through the process of actually listening to their albums, reading about their work, lives, and the context surrounding it all, and generating an understanding of the topic.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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