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Posted on March 3, 2020

From A Rippled Plank Of Wood

Yours. Mine.

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Posted on March 2, 2020

Three Tanka; Many Words

A dragon’s hide.

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Posted on February 28, 2020

For The Lady In The Dulcet-Hued Bandana

The wisps of orange marshal light amidst the blue.

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Posted on February 25, 2020

A Sonnet On The Surface Of My Coffee

Now sparse the signs of entropied life sit, floating despite th’impossibility.

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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 February 9, 2020

Zappai For A Person Passing

Light a-righted.

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Posted on February 6, 2020

A Sonnet To The Art Of Writing

Creation pained; a look that’s lost, or hid…

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Posted on February 2, 2020February 2, 2020

Aaytthurrteefoorpee-em

[Inhale.] [Exhale.]

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Posted on January 19, 2020January 19, 2020

A Flow’r Upon A Grave

Shape ‘n send forw’d the currents riv’ring by! With your time-warped scraps the bed doth lie suffused!

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Posted on January 10, 2020

Writing Is A Visual Art

Song-spilt ink.

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Posted on January 6, 2020January 6, 2020

Travels With A Flex-Grip Pen

Ferry me upriver.

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Posted on December 29, 2019

All You Need Is Art

No calligraphy you’ll lay that isn’t art.

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Posted on December 23, 2019December 23, 2019

The Voice That Searched My Memories: extracts from The Floating Harbour

Now riddle it with chaos: muddied fury lit by mob-borne flame.

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Posted on December 22, 2019December 22, 2019

This Room, This City, This World: extracts from The Floating Harbour

“Change is the only thing. It’s the only thing there is.”

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Posted on December 21, 2019December 21, 2019

That Way, For Him, Adventure Lies: extracts from The Floating Harbour

The seagulls, too: they screech in semi-reliably recorded history.

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William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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