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Posted on March 24, 2020March 24, 2020

A Tanka On The Corner Of The Harbourside

A ring around old cobble.

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Posted on March 24, 2020

Dawn

…

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Posted on March 23, 2020

Kwohrunteend

House. Café. Poet.

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Posted on March 21, 2020

Quarantine Blues #1 & #2

Two streams of consciousness.

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Posted on March 9, 2020September 16, 2020

A Tanka In Japanese

Asoko…

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Posted on March 3, 2020

From A Rippled Plank Of Wood

Yours. Mine.

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Posted on March 2, 2020February 26, 2026

Three Tanka; Many Words

A dragon’s hide.

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Posted on March 1, 2020March 1, 2020

A Tanka For The Spring To Come

Image credit – Japan Objects

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Posted on February 28, 2020

For The Lady In The Dulcet-Hued Bandana

The wisps of orange marshal light amidst the blue.

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Posted on February 25, 2020

A Sonnet On The Surface Of My Coffee

Now sparse the signs of entropied life sit, floating despite th’impossibility.

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Posted on February 22, 2020

Reflecting On The Recent Present

Through glass: the tiles, in rain-swept sick.

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Posted on February 18, 2020February 18, 2020

A Tanka By The Banks(a)

Hikari…

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Posted on February 14, 2020

Some Blank Verse, In Which I Indirectly State That The Sunlight Fills The Room

Now mourned’s the passing peace of night, its flight flown with the scorching licks of star-fire at its torn ‘n frayed heels.

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Posted on February 13, 2020February 13, 2020

Am ‘N Will Be

Already.

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Posted on February 10, 2020December 6, 2020

To Reach Through Glass ‘N Time

The pane that stands between millennia.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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