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Posted on April 10, 2023

Hello Harbour, My Old Muse

Th’wind o’er th’water.

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Posted on November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

Hymn To The River

From beyond the Island Of The Elephant – realm of Khnum, Satet, Anqet – you flow from your
secret cavern-source to those bouldered, bord’ring shores!

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Posted on August 1, 2022

On York’s Waterway

Yah nough, don’t yuh?

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Posted on December 27, 2021

I Saw The Girl-Child, Standing

A blaze-blue spirit, wonder-rapt.

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Posted on October 17, 2021

Adventure Tanka

The boiling blackcurrant’s sipped; thrown.

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Posted on August 31, 2021

Sketch (Fourth Coming)

A water flower.

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Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021

A Scene I Seen By Th’River

The sunfire breaks the emptied cloud to strike upon the waters.

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Posted on July 11, 2021

Penned In Pensford

Lapped at by the coursing mirrored-sky.

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Posted on May 17, 2021

Riverrun

あす は 水 が へ 空 を かえります.

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Posted on February 12, 2021February 12, 2021

River-Light Deepens; Lingers

Dusk deepens.

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Posted on January 10, 2021

Unlimited

Paddling swan in feathers.

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Posted on December 17, 2020

A List Of Things I Noticed At The Harbour

The dog’s bark ricochets in waves that break ‘gainst seagull’s calling.

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Posted on December 11, 2020

Tanka, With A Bonus Quatrain

Day-drinker ponders; rises; leaves the poem.

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Posted on November 24, 2020

Shriek; Undulation

Do you hear?

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Posted on November 15, 2020

Today: Ten Tanka

People-watching; people, watching me.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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