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Posted on Jun 3, 2022Jun 12, 2022

雨; 雪

空が話きす.

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Posted on May 19, 2021

A Tanka To The Rainful Night

Wood ‘n metal merged.

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Posted on Feb 2, 2021

00.36am

The wind weaves.

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Posted on Oct 28, 2020

A Poem That I Texted

With pub fire calling, its warmth tempting all in, Molly, through the rain she yet led.

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Posted on Jun 18, 2020

Under The Shelter Of St. Nick’s

The wind-waves ferry only onward th’scents of wawtry wood and th’smells of rainswept stone.

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Posted on Jun 15, 2020

I Wrote A Poem While I Waited Out The Rain

Under the patchwork canopy that catches falling rain…

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Posted on Feb 22, 2020

Reflecting On The Recent Present

Through glass: the tiles, in rain-swept sick.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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