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Posted on January 5, 2020

Others

Not.

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Posted on January 1, 2020

When Who Why ? You .

Are you awake already?

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Posted on December 29, 2019

All You Need Is Art

No calligraphy you’ll lay that isn’t art.

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Posted on December 23, 2019December 23, 2019

The Voice That Searched My Memories: extracts from The Floating Harbour

Now riddle it with chaos: muddied fury lit by mob-borne flame.

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Posted on December 22, 2019December 22, 2019

The Birth Day Of The Sun: Part III

Silent morning. Earthly peace. Servant girl re-swaddles.

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Posted on December 22, 2019December 22, 2019

This Room, This City, This World: extracts from The Floating Harbour

“Change is the only thing. It’s the only thing there is.”

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Posted on December 21, 2019December 21, 2019

That Way, For Him, Adventure Lies: extracts from The Floating Harbour

The seagulls, too: they screech in semi-reliably recorded history.

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Posted on December 19, 2019

The Hunter Sits: extracts from The Floating Harbour

Such keen eyes, such keen resolve.

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Posted on December 19, 2019December 19, 2019

The River Keeps Me Company: extracts from The Floating Harbour

I watch her and she’s wistless as she weaves and waves again.

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Posted on December 16, 2019December 17, 2020

The Birth Day Of The Sun: Part II

Soundless stands each stretch of houses.

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Posted on December 10, 2019

The Birth Day Of The Sun: Part I

Bayit-Lekhem in wintrous calm as coarsest night kills evening.

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Posted on December 8, 2019

Write

Boku wa…

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Posted on December 6, 2019

Rittun Langwidj

Gotta. Gonna. Wanna.

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Posted on December 5, 2019

Approach (Haiku)

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Posted on November 27, 2019

] ] ] ] ] or, A Poem Perched In Poco

The candle on the island lights the moving, glass-bound muse.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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