Remembering Forgotten Days; Tweet-tastic; Adventures in LovE - part 12 LIVE!; Exclusive poem - He Fell Asleep: Tales From The UniversE No 29 - this newsletter from Monton, Salford

An arcadia of imagination

DJing at The Wandering Palate, Monton, Salford. Pic: Paradisio Publishing

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1. Adventures in LovE - out now!!!

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2. Remembering The Days You’ve Forgotten

One more day gone. Pic: Paradisio Publishing

‘what occurred/on those lilac framed days/when everything

mattered/and then nothing ever did?’

A rainy vista over fields of bracken.

Backseat scooter-riding though Rhodes Old Town on acid.

Waking in a room in Goa and for a moment not knowing where you are in the world.

One late afternoon cup of coffee that causes brain-flickers, mind-jumps, pictures of a walk across snow in the village in the Swiss Alps where you used to reside.

Gaze at an old photograph. Listen to a bit of music. Suddenly where are you?Somewhere familiar and strange - a past you have lived but forgotten.

How many pasts like this?

How many days did you forget?

Minutes, hours.

Moments.

A flailing sense of trying to grasp at this.

Quick.

Slow.

Days, days, days, days, days, days, days. Where did they go, where do they go???

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The novel I’m redrafting at the moment is named, Pageant Days, and is about exactly this.

Set in the pandemic in a village, the plot centres on an incident in a storm in a wild valley.