Lemonade Anemone

Not a reflection of poor self-esteem or insufficient familial regard; still, I am Nothing. It doesn’t suit me: I am too proud, straight-backed  and supple as philosophy a shadow made flesh and fur,  my formlessness ideal  for the hunt. I am mercurial, a mystery in his living room. Something unnamed purring by the fireside. I am unknowable, unaccountable the sleek keeper of sneaked secrets. Only an animal in the abstract. Unfathomable. I am what the universe  expands into. The opposite of reason. Greater than gods, more evil than the devil,  I am what the rich man craves and the poor man has in spades.  Your joke has made a monster of me a small, limitless void, staring back with feline green eyes. Good evening, I am Nothing. Pleased to meet you. Jean Paul Sartre with his cat, who he called Nothing

In one of my previous blogs, I talked about my favourite reading tracker app , and a few people suggested that I talk a bit more about my favourite books from 2022. So, here's a list, which I've compiled from my post-reading reviews. These are not necessarily books that were published in 2022 - just ones I read in the last twelve months.    Let me know if you've read any of these, and definitely let me know what you thought about them!  *** BEST POETRY COLLECTION:  Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp I said: " A beautiful collection full of poems that build image upon image to create gloriously wistful emotional landscapes. Some of the poems about grief and loss are particularly devastating. I loved it, but I'd recommend reading it slowly - I read it all on one go and it was quite overwhelming." MOST BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN:  On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong I said: "A beautiful, poetic journey through the American/Vietnamese experience in the early