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Posted on November 8, 2025

Novembertime At No. 10

Watch ’em celebrate an armistice
whilst they wage destruction.

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Posted on January 24, 2024January 24, 2024

Song Of Palestine – Never Again; Again

This design lies deep within our marrow; plays its pull upon our sinews still.

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Posted on November 11, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Armistice Means Ceasefire

For the dead of conflicts ended long ago before their birth they’ll say “Armistice!”.

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Posted on January 2, 2021

Signs Of Someone

Robins.

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Posted on November 2, 2019November 14, 2019

A Last Request

Let me/it, at last, then, rise, buffeted by sound-waves.

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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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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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