Mute Cloud Woman

Mute Cloud Woman
© Surazeus
2026 10 10

When cloud woman on silk demonic wings 
explains how child of the mountain transcends 
glass box of sorrows hidden in the stone, 
I gather flowing water of the moon 
that flutters on frail wings to where I wait 
in glowing aura of the willow tree. 

Entranced by sadness of green ocean waves 
that seem to know what I intend to do 
before I wake from fractured stone of fate, 
shy cloud woman steals from electric snake 
last apple of love, then brings it to me 
in glowing aura of the willow tree. 

Trapped by skin of the wolf with angel wings 
that should conceal true nature of my heart, 
I run in spirals of expanding faith 
through maze of meadows to the misty glen 
to help faceless people build garden homes 
in glowing aura of the willow tree. 

Assembling relics of lost memories 
as photographs of people by the house, 
and undelivered letters in the drawer, 
heart-broken cloud woman compiles new book 
about her brother who wanders the world 
in glowing aura of the willow tree. 

While children run along the orchard hedge 
to count ducks floating on the silver pond, 
and women churn butter by the stone wall, 
mute cloud woman sings about the moon owl 
who watches her with eyes of ancient stars 
in glowing aura of the willow tree. 

Born from strange gleam of the viridian sea, 
with eyes of emeralds that perceive the heart 
of every conscious creature in the world, 
cloud woman climbs stairs to the Parthenon 
where Athena sends me to find her scroll 
in glowing aura of the willow tree. 

On ruins of the city bombed to rubble 
we build new temple of the laughing god 
who teaches us to love this transient life 
for every soul has no more than one chance 
to shine with beauty of expressive love 
in glowing aura of the willow tree. 

I deconstruct the person I have been 
when I dismantle memories of pain 
by beaming all my sorrows in the mask 
that hangs in hall of the many-faced god 
who wakes reborn as me with crafting hands 
in glowing aura of the willow tree.