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Posted on October 1, 2020

On The First Day Of October

Alit along the current air did fall, in feath’ry glide, a-whilst my coffee waits, a crow.

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Posted on August 3, 2020

Fleeting Songs, Eternal: the tanka & the sonnet

Little song. Short song.

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Posted on July 6, 2020July 6, 2020

A Sonnet On The Harbourside

Outside, upon the paved ‘n railing-ringed walk – sheltered – way, where Sunday patrons sit, the sun, through th’river’s auld reflection sings on th’wooden slats below the Cascade Steps.

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Posted on February 25, 2020

A Sonnet On The Surface Of My Coffee

Now sparse the signs of entropied life sit, floating despite th’impossibility.

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Posted on February 6, 2020

A Sonnet To The Art Of Writing

Creation pained; a look that’s lost, or hid…

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Posted on January 19, 2020January 19, 2020

A Flow’r Upon A Grave

Shape ‘n send forw’d the currents riv’ring by! With your time-warped scraps the bed doth lie suffused!

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Posted on June 12, 2019

Sonnet -18

You are e’en clearer; by more stars alight.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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