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Posted on April 8, 2020

A Zappai For Your Consideration

Yes indeed.

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Posted on March 24, 2020March 24, 2020

A Tanka On The Corner Of The Harbourside

A ring around old cobble.

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Posted on February 13, 2020February 13, 2020

Am ‘N Will Be

Already.

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Posted on February 10, 2020December 6, 2020

To Reach Through Glass ‘N Time

The pane that stands between millennia.

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Posted on November 10, 2019

Tanka Tanka Zappai

Write it; move on.

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Posted on October 31, 2019October 31, 2019

A Pint Of Gluten-Free

I have/I will have written in the waves of echoed song.

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Posted on October 24, 2019December 22, 2019

Shumba Hadzi

A gradual, rolling rumble from few spots on the horizon brings a chorus for the dawn to sail its orange sunlight o’er.

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Posted on October 23, 2019

Another Moment Here ‘N Then

The breeze feels like an echo of a cold too cold to bear, as the gull glides on its currents and the waves of winter light.

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Posted on October 19, 2019October 19, 2019

The Café Door Opens ‘N Closes

I sit in soft, surrounded solitude.

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Posted on October 10, 2019October 10, 2019

Time For Two Things

Only, really, time for teaching (worth it) others.

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Posted on August 20, 2019August 20, 2019

…

Am I ever writing this? You were always reading this. The stars knew they were burning…

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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 May 14, 2019

After The Rainbow

Iswillwas/Waswillis?

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Posted on May 4, 2019May 4, 2019

A Day In The Life

Awaken.

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Posted on May 1, 2019

So April Ends & May Begins

Even as (ephemeral) the winter’s apogee takes Easter on and, late, chase they the heels of Autumn.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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