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Posted on November 26, 2019November 26, 2019

Fifty-Seven Minutes

Where is the poetry and where’s the poet that it clasps to?

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Posted on November 25, 2019

Wirdz: uh zapaye

Play, pleigh, puhley.

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Posted on November 25, 2019

Adagio… Hanging There, Unwav’ring

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

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Posted on November 24, 2019

To Bristol Town!

P’rhaps we won’t stop anymore, now there’s no space – seat or floor.

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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 November 19, 2019

On My Nihongo

Tanka/Tanka.

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Posted on November 18, 2019November 18, 2019

Ephem’ral Immortality

Somestuff to present to whomsoever ever reads it.

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Posted on November 17, 2019

Jazz/Outside Observance Only

A gaze a-gaze across the fold.

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Posted on November 16, 2019

A Tanka Of Titles In Acronym

FOTABTFOTN.

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Posted on November 12, 2019

The Wall’s Another Canvas

Take syllabic space ‘n empty it of possibility.

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Posted on November 10, 2019November 10, 2019

Akirakanisuru

Lying, list’ning.

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Posted on November 10, 2019

Tanka Tanka Zappai

Write it; move on.

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Posted on November 9, 2019November 9, 2019

Canopus

Vissuhrah entoombed; brightist star.

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Posted on November 4, 2019

Tanka Desune

Watashidake.

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Posted on November 3, 2019November 3, 2019

The Ballad Of Stokes Croft: a song of poems

It is a song of poems – different parts in different verse throughout a night exchanging stories.

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William Altoft

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