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Posted on April 12, 2019August 14, 2019

Bristol

You are my favourite place.

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Posted on April 11, 2019

Life’s A

Life’s a wander ’round the harbourside.

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Posted on April 9, 2019

Reception

Will it be as the still air?

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Posted on March 30, 2019March 30, 2019

A Punctuated Sentence

Three, four, and an Oxford comma.

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Posted on March 30, 2019

A Friday Night Near April

Beneath the raised voices sinks the sound of someone leaving…

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Posted on March 10, 2019

It Was Life

It’s a long, long way away,
no matter how you hold it.

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Posted on March 9, 2019

L.T.D.

Perhaps you know it all already. Do you?

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Posted on February 21, 2019

They’re Both Japanese

Five to open.

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Posted on February 15, 2019December 4, 2025

Accidental Haiku; Deliberate Tanka

This is the present moment.

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Posted on February 7, 2019February 8, 2019

Haiku, anyone? or, On Writing

Anyone for a haiku?

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Posted on January 28, 2019January 28, 2019

Growth & Memory

As if a separate, other person
lived a separate life…

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Posted on November 16, 2018

Those Scattered Moments

Don’t let them fade.

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Posted on November 4, 2018

Through Soil Of Pain & Song

A million seeds, a million more:
the boy-child sown and scattered.

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Posted on October 15, 2018October 15, 2018

The Sound-Waves Wander Onward

The same big band, the same man’s voice.

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Posted on September 1, 2018September 2, 2018

Flight

I need to learn to look, to gaze, at the pitch
of the passing ‘tween the tunnel’s either end.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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