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Posted on December 21, 2020

A Rainy-Bus-Day Senryu

The time that passed.

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Posted on December 20, 2020

10.34pm

I write these words to end a tanka.

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Posted on December 2, 2020

Four Poems For Me; For You

The cranes cry to the cov’ring cloud.

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Posted on November 24, 2020

Shriek; Undulation

Do you hear?

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Posted on November 19, 2020

Next’s The Beginning

Notebook completed; page un-blanked; th’caress of wind-soothed heat.

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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 October 21, 2020

A Mem’ry ‘Pon A Corner Of My Mind

Neurotaclismic chasmmind find pain in memorandemonia

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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, 2020October 5, 2020

Wanna Buy Some Poetry?

Poetry books for sale!

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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 25, 2020September 28, 2020

Poetry Notebooks For Sale!

Poetry collections – bespoke & not – for sale!

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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 September 10, 2020

Signing Off

Coffee stains.

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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 19, 2020

Long Division

Sentence by sentence.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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