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Posted on Feb 20, 2026

The Passion Of The Earth-Sprung

Wild women, wolfsoul drumming, gather all around her at her passion!

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Posted on Mar 6, 2025

The Fury Of The Earth-Sprung

“Oh eye, oh night…” The Sha’ir speaks, hakawati-heartbeat pulsing.

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Posted on Oct 31, 2024

New Gaza

Leshemchot-ir. Tevach-ir. Sho’a-ir.

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Posted on Mar 17, 2024

The Dancing Of The Earth-Sprung

Lenape. Manaháhtaan. Palestinians. Palestine.

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Posted on Dec 25, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Gazan Nativity

He had felt the convulsions of his parent’s movements through their days of flight ‘n persecution, wandering Dawlat Filastin to find a birthplace home.

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Posted on Nov 21, 2019

A(n updated) Bristol Series

I have, these recent years, fallen, somehow, in to writing about Bristol over and over again.

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Posted on Sep 30, 2019Sep 30, 2019

A Bristol Series

Poetry, prose…

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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  • Grief-Rage; Hope-Love Mar 25, 2026
  • A Sonnet Of Despair & Agony Feb 22, 2026
  • The Passion Of The Earth-Sprung Feb 20, 2026

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