Mindless Nature Zones

Mindless Nature Zones
© Surazeus
2026 11 02

Bright river flows between bush-tangled shores 
where sandhill cranes discuss theology 
concerning mirror vision of the self 
that we project in mindless nature zones, 
so I fish for salmon of earnest faith 
in how the sun gleams through reluctant clouds. 

Amazed by paradox of brilliant light 
enhanced by solid nothingness of gloom, 
I drive bus on brave road of anywhere 
so people holding books of fairy tales 
may find their grief in secret forest glades, 
encased in tangled roots of apple trees. 

Acquainted with sadness of drifting hills, 
our children wearing costumes of dead gods 
gaze through kaleidoscopes of sacred creeds 
to see angelic souls their neighbors hide 
behind time-weathered masks of bitter faith 
in suffering issued by seven-eyed fate. 

Contrived by formulas of quiddity 
to represent weird whatness of our souls, 
new social myths define our troubled age 
based on performative respect for law, 
so I assert right to my breathing-space 
beneath the timeless olive tree of love. 

Strange laughter from unopened books of faith 
preserves tales about the Healer of Minds 
who teaches us art of resilience 
to understand sorrows we leave behind 
since aging angels, that our parents are, 
guard our progress against rapacious lies. 

Old-fashioned riddles stuck in holy books 
slither from unnatural signs to engage 
unmeasured truths people long to believe, 
such as that souls which animate our bodies 
remain whole with our consciousness intact 
after our frames of flesh dissolve to dust. 

Well organized by our season in Hell, 
our frantic feelings of nonchalant hope 
lie wounded beneath windows of the church, 
beamed by sharp light of citric nothingness, 
so we search through fog of reality 
with dim lamp of our aching hearts as light. 

Each person sees complex state of this world 
as their own puzzle, simplified by fear, 
so we breathe spirit of ethereal love, 
then speak strange words invented by blind trees 
that helps us understand what others see 
as we walk along bright river of faith.