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Posted on November 2, 2019November 14, 2019

A Last Request

Let me/it, at last, then, rise, buffeted by sound-waves.

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Posted on October 31, 2019October 31, 2019

A Pint Of Gluten-Free

I have/I will have written in the waves of echoed song.

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Posted on October 28, 2019

Dependent On A Crashing Wave Of Fire

A spring begets a stream becomes a river raising tides.

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Posted on October 24, 2019December 22, 2019

Shumba Hadzi

A gradual, rolling rumble from few spots on the horizon brings a chorus for the dawn to sail its orange sunlight o’er.

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Posted on October 23, 2019

Taiyō; Tsuki To Chikyū

Hikari kawa.

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Posted on October 23, 2019

Another Moment Here ‘N Then

The breeze feels like an echo of a cold too cold to bear, as the gull glides on its currents and the waves of winter light.

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Posted on October 20, 2019October 20, 2019

Excerpts: a trailer for a ballad

Each of us with tales ‘n layered lives to be disclosed…

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Posted on October 19, 2019October 19, 2019

The Café Door Opens ‘N Closes

I sit in soft, surrounded solitude.

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Posted on October 17, 2019

Noticing The Outside Looking In

I think (/realise).

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Posted on October 15, 2019October 15, 2019

The Treasure Of The Pied Crow

Pied white ‘n dull-green ‘n shim’ring black, treasuring the trove you’ve gathered.

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Posted on October 14, 2019September 16, 2020

Joji To Kawa

Itsumo to eien ni.

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Posted on October 13, 2019October 13, 2019

From A Manufactured Perch, Road-Riverside

The fire of the dragon’s protest-flame marks only its self ‘n message.

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Posted on October 12, 2019

Samurai Tanka

Itsumo no keikai.

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Posted on October 10, 2019October 10, 2019

Time For Two Things

Only, really, time for teaching (worth it) others.

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Posted on October 9, 2019October 9, 2019

Number 20

Red that chips/that fades to fray.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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