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Posted on April 4, 2022

A Morning’s Musing

Those in queue talk movies.

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Posted on March 23, 2022

On An Evening

A moment clear.

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Posted on March 21, 2022

Oh, To Be Back At The Canteen!

I’ve not been here in fucking ages!

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Posted on March 11, 2022

Tobacco Fact’ry Tanka

Fingertip-fixed; floating.

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Posted on March 6, 2022

A Poetry Reading

A live reading of “At The Entrance Of The Afternoon” & “A List Of Things I Noticed At The Harbour”.

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Posted on February 19, 2022February 19, 2022

Emergency Notebook Tanka

Storm Eunice.

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Posted on February 8, 2022

Weston-Super-Mare

Shattering the feedback-loop!

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Posted on January 26, 2022

Café Back Garden

I’m trapped at home again.

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Posted on January 23, 2022

A Second Scrap Of Notes-Gone-By

That’ll be distracting.

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Posted on January 21, 2022

A Scrap Of Notes-Gone-By

In one ear ‘n out the other.

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Posted on January 20, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: Epilogue

I told her of the stag of memory; of th’earth; of private moments lived; of th’night.

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Posted on January 19, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: III

With gracile step, agilic poise, ‘n purity he’d leapt from th’dark off to my right-side.

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Posted on January 18, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: II

I see myself still strolling.

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Posted on January 17, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: I

Lapped waves wash, broken-crested – I am young.

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Posted on January 16, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: Prologue

T’was o’er ‘n through this coastly scene we traced the tracks of mem’ry.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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