My grandfather didn’t know he was a Taoist.
He had fished the river Awe for sixty years.
Life is sensed as a flowing movement,
a power like wind or water. When he cast,
it was the bank that moved, not the river…
—Lorn Macintyre, “Satori”
from The Bridport Prize Anthology 2013
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