somewhere between waking and sleeping.
On our journey towards the unfathomable deep, there comes a thin moment
where we have one foot in the waking world and the other is in that other world where we relinquish conscious control.
Pausing here and straddled between two planets that drive one another like gears,
the attentive traveller will notice a narrow door, only wide enough to sidle through.
This is the border of sleep, where imagination and reality are braided together,
a chasm in the crust of consciousness, venting the hot pumice of imagery into the irresistible magma of narrative.
Welcome to episode 64 of Stories from the Borders of Sleep,
a podcast of curious tales created and voiced by your host Seymour Jacklin.
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So, if you're ready to journey with me, then I shall begin.
The Abandoned Scarf by Seymour Jacklin.
All of this feels like a lifetime ago, or was it just last year?
It matters not, except to say what a summer that was.
Luminous in my mind.