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Posted on August 3, 2019

A Tanka, Then A Word, And Then A Sentence

Finally.

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Posted on July 25, 2019

Two Tanka & A Single Word

Cities in parallel, blended; the nearer past and ancient times.

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Posted on July 15, 2019

Written Somewhere Sunny In The South-West

Momentum felt as sep’rate moments: such is time.

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Posted on July 6, 2019

Oh… Well That Changes Things

Sounds, not syllables.

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Posted on July 1, 2019

Tanka, With A Rhyming Couplet

The city is mapped.

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Posted on June 23, 2019June 23, 2019

Poems At The Place Between Commitments

To a-waiting ideas, then, return.

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Posted on April 9, 2019

Reception

Will it be as the still air?

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Posted on February 21, 2019

They’re Both Japanese

Five to open.

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Posted on February 15, 2019December 4, 2025

Accidental Haiku; Deliberate Tanka

This is the present moment.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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