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Posted on October 3, 2025

Rainsoul Windweave Timefall

Watching on.

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Posted on August 8, 2024

I Dreamed I Saw The QueenKing’s Face In Person, There Before Me

A form adorned in beauty.

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Posted on July 17, 2024

Not. Lost.

Perhaps.

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Posted on February 20, 2023

Time-Begotten

Hist’ry-layered.

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Posted on November 22, 2022November 22, 2022

[Without End]

End-less.

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Posted on June 1, 2022

Eleven

The time hits twelve; the time turns past.

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Posted on May 16, 2022May 24, 2022

Versing (Freely)

That’s now (then) & here (there), though.

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Posted on April 6, 2022

A Tanka From A Scrap Of Sonnet

Here I sit.

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Posted on January 20, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: Epilogue

I told her of the stag of memory; of th’earth; of private moments lived; of th’night.

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Posted on January 19, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: III

With gracile step, agilic poise, ‘n purity he’d leapt from th’dark off to my right-side.

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Posted on January 18, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: II

I see myself still strolling.

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Posted on January 17, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: I

Lapped waves wash, broken-crested – I am young.

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Posted on January 16, 2022

The Stag Upon The Brean Peninsula: Prologue

T’was o’er ‘n through this coastly scene we traced the tracks of mem’ry.

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Posted on January 9, 2022

?後

I perform great feats.

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Posted on December 14, 2021

The Song Of Seshat

Endless as the fires of night.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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