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Posted on November 24, 2020

Shriek; Undulation

Do you hear?

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Posted on November 18, 2020

Poems From Café Living Room

These pages three, in their loose ‘n blank-lined state, are, together, a haiku.

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Posted on November 16, 2020

A Thought, Through Pen, On Paper

Poles of gold; bridled porcelain.

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Posted on November 15, 2020

Today: Ten Tanka

People-watching; people, watching me.

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Posted on November 10, 2020

たんかのいま

私はいくます; いくました.

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Posted on October 11, 2020

An Alliterative Thought

Solitary; stone-surrounded.

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Posted on October 10, 2020

From The Table Backed By Octaves In Their Slumber

The city spreads its sprawl.

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Posted on October 5, 2020

A Tanka On My Mild Frustration At Piles Of Books & Ideas Waiting

But:

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Posted on September 22, 2020

A Tanka For A Friend

このぶんしょはむしろいきます.

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Posted on August 31, 2020

A Tanka On The Surface Of My Coffee

In spreadhaze hue…

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Posted on August 24, 2020

Tanka Taken From A Tree-Trunk

King Will’yum walks, in wettened-sand.

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Posted on August 19, 2020

Long Division

Sentence by sentence.

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Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020

Haiga

Art ‘n poetry.

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Posted on August 13, 2020August 13, 2020

Poor Choice

A habit making heat-wave worse.

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Posted on August 10, 2020

Wand’ring With My Ink-Blue Thoughts

Hill. Café. Bus.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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