LUCIANA CROCI Luciana Croci is a Newcastle-based poet and writer, whose work is published in Animal Encounters (Catchfire Press 2012), Australian Novascapes, Speculative Fiction Anthology (Invisible Elephant Press 2016), Poetry Collaboration, (Meuse Press,2018,2019,2020), The Blue Nib Literary Magazine (Issue 41) the e-anthology Mediterranean Odyssey. She has a background in languages (Latin, French, Italian, German and Japanese).
Dipping into the tao te ching
The way that can be spoken of as the true way is not the true way
I enter the lamasery garden fragrant with incense wafting from dragon urns cast in ancient copper so different from ashes of stale censers in the closeness of cathedrals where a corpse is worshipped on a cross. I walk on bronze-leaf paths speckled with the last of the fallen persimmons. Robes glide like liquid saffron on a gameboard drawn by branches and voices chant the om of the universe. Energy flows through wind and water, fills the font outside the temple and the bowl resting on the moss.
The Tao does not count life’s imperfections nor weighs sins in numbers on a scale, it counts the way to the deity in haiku syllables.
© Luciana Croci 2021 December Volume Two POETRY & WRITING © liveencounters.net
