Wicker Basket Of Wealth

Wicker Basket Of Wealth
© Surazeus
2026 10 23

Since angels struggle to explain despair 
to oak trees lounging in the parking lot, 
roots cracking miles of asphalt into crumbs, 
Plato joins convention of architects 
where he presents new way to visualize 
city landscapes that favor garden pools. 

Watching sunrays flash on the mountain ridge 
when Eos weaves forms of the world from light, 
Rixende sits among tall willow trees 
with branches heaped on workbench of her heart, 
and contemplates strange beauty of the world 
as she weaves wicker baskets with strict care. 

Watching butterflies on wild lavender, 
Rixende calculates from market price 
how many baskets she should weave today 
to earn enough coins from her crafting hands 
that lets her purchase the small copper pot 
which Gauzbert hammers into useful shape. 

Though passion of time cannot be contained 
with serpent riddles in bottle of hope, 
Rixende contemplates how sweet perfume 
might enchant metallic heart of Gauzbert 
to notice graceful beauty of her soul, 
but decides to buy the cooking pot instead. 

While teaching Alamanda how to weave 
wicker baskets from slender willow limbs, 
Rixende explains concept of its type, 
how Idea of Basket provides form 
as standard pattern of restrictive size 
that contains matter within useful shape. 

Every material basket that exists 
embodies in span of its time and space 
the Perfect Basket in Realm of Ideas, 
which we call Heaven of changeless truth 
because it provides frame of reference 
for matter to become things of this world. 

Stopping by her booth in the market place, 
that radiates outward from Temple of Ceres, 
Plato inspects several baskets with care, 
gives her three silver obols stamped with owls 
while praising tightness of the wicker weave, 
then strolls away with basket on his arm. 

Though ten thousand years of time has transformed 
cities on Earth from ziggurats to towers 
since crafty Tayet first designed the basket, 
we still weave round baskets from willow limbs 
so children may gather eggs from the woods 
when Ishtar sparks life to spring from the Earth.