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Posted on Oct 17, 2021

Adventure Tanka

The boiling blackcurrant’s sipped; thrown.

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Posted on Sep 19, 2021

Invigilation

Mock SATs.

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Posted on Sep 5, 2021

新しいの日

山は安いです.

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Posted on Aug 31, 2021

Sketch (Fourth Coming)

A water flower.

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Posted on Aug 21, 2021Aug 21, 2021

Asking/Begging

As with those others, I’ll not help you.

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Posted on Aug 18, 2021Aug 18, 2021

Sketch (A Further; Third)

Unpetalled, blank papyrus.

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Posted on Aug 14, 2021Aug 14, 2021

Merchant’s Hall Tanka

Brick bears beams bear rooftiles.

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Posted on Aug 13, 2021

Postcard Poetry

The stained-glass panes, that stretched to reach the heavens, shone.

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Posted on Aug 9, 2021

Amidst Amongst Around The North York Moors

A bird of prey, at hov’ring height, doth herald.

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Posted on Aug 1, 2021

Hawking Written Wares

The footfall flux meanders.

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Posted on Jul 24, 2021

Heatwaved Harbour

The searsome sun seethes heathaze.

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Posted on Jul 10, 2021

Kanagawa

Their lines stretch finite.

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Posted on Jun 27, 2021

A Tanka For The Pigeons Having Sex

Pigeon plays his puff-chest charm.

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Posted on Jun 20, 2021

Wreflected

I write; I drink; I’m passed through.

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Posted on Jun 18, 2021

From One Notebook To Another

Whate’er shall I write next?

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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