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Posted on Apr 18, 2019

Ay Fyoo Highcooz

Simplir Inglish.

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Posted on Apr 18, 2019Apr 18, 2019

Waters, Whatever

Whatever the width.

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Posted on Apr 17, 2019Apr 18, 2019

A Short Demonstration

Really.

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Posted on Apr 17, 2019Apr 18, 2019

S’not Nonsense; S’meaningful

I’ll invent, I’ll introduce, innovative idioms.

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Posted on Apr 12, 2019Aug 14, 2019

Bristol

You are my favourite place.

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Posted on Apr 11, 2019

Life’s A

Life’s a wander ’round the harbourside.

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Posted on Apr 9, 2019

Reception

Will it be as the still air?

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Posted on Mar 30, 2019Mar 30, 2019

A Punctuated Sentence

Three, four, and an Oxford comma.

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Posted on Mar 30, 2019

A Friday Night Near April

Beneath the raised voices sinks the sound of someone leaving…

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Posted on Mar 10, 2019

It Was Life

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

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Posted on Mar 9, 2019

L.T.D.

Perhaps you know it all already. Do you?

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Posted on Feb 21, 2019

They’re Both Japanese

Five to open.

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Posted on Feb 15, 2019Dec 4, 2025

Accidental Haiku; Deliberate Tanka

This is the present moment.

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Posted on Feb 7, 2019Feb 8, 2019

Haiku, anyone? or, On Writing

Anyone for a haiku?

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Posted on Jan 28, 2019Jan 28, 2019

Growth & Memory

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

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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