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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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Posted on August 12, 2018September 1, 2018

Time-Warped Scraps

Time-warped scraps – the dream continues on,
unphased by the approaching of its limits.

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Posted on August 9, 2018July 19, 2019

Their Stealthy Freedom: a poem for the women of Iran

Wearing, proud, the wind that weaves without,
and now within,
the wistless soul that falls out free across the shoulders.

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Posted on July 30, 2018July 30, 2018

Approaching Midnight

And here I am in that moment,
leafing through the scattered others.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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