When the Clouds Pass is a testament to the quiet courage it takes to keep living after loss. In these pages, Sayona Vale tenderly gathers the fragments of grief-its shadows, its unexpected beauty, its brutal honesty-and arranges them into a landscape where sorrow and healing are allowed to coexist. These poems do not rush toward closure or promise a world without pain; instead, they honor the truth that healing is a rhythm, a returning, a slow unfurling of light in a place that once felt unbearably dark. Through vivid imagery, aching vulnerability, and moments of startling clarity, this collection explores what remains after death has altered the shape of a life. It is a journey through memory's sharp edges and its soft, luminous centers, an exploration of how love persists in the quiet spaces left behind. Vale writes of loss not as an ending but as a teacher-one that reshapes us, expands our capacity for empathy, and reminds us of the deep, unbreakable threads that bind us to one another. When the Clouds Pass offers readers permission to feel deeply, to honor their own rhythms of grief, and to recognize the tender triumph found in simply continuing. These poems invite you to breathe again, to step forward even with trembling feet, and to notice how light returns-slowly, gently, inevitably-after the storm has passed. It is a collection for anyone learning to live with absence, anyone searching for meaning in the quiet aftermath, and anyone who needs the reminder that love endures long after the clouds have drifted away.