Apperception

My fifth poetry book entitled "Apperception" is about the recognition of my vulnerability

motivated by the pandemic and the ensuing confinement during which I wrote the book. Writing a book about the pandemic, its causes and consequences, protected me

against the fragility caused by the pandemic and made me think about and ponder

the reasons which could have brought this catastrophe to our world. Obviously, my relation to nature and my perception of the animal and plant world changed: I became

more alert and aware of the birds which began to fly lower and closer to our houses,

the neighbourhood dogs that began to bark louder into the night, crows that walked

the streets and croaked at dawn...I understood that unless we ameliorate our relations

with the animal kingdom that has its own rules and regulations which we must respect

we will be prone to pandemics like Covid and become even more vulnerable to viruses that spread through the animals than we were this time. But do we need a pandemic

to make us realise our weaknesses and our vulnerability? And then, is it worth it to be angry at ourselves because we lose our independence in the process and realise our utter interdependence? In this process, our apperception becomes sharpened.

Thinking about the past can, perhaps, help us avoid future errors at the price of lost lives and an imposed interdependence to which we react with anger.