poem: life as participatory flow

our lives are constant flow
things come together and fall apart

grief, relief
misery, joy

engaging, disengaging
exile, return

life’s paradoxical tensions
revealing a new holism

as the unity of both/and
and a peace surpassing all understanding

making room for all this
so that the hǣlan comes

Herb Stone
here&now working poetry
August 21, 2021

photo by author at Draper Coastal
Dune Lake estuary in Santa Rosa
Beach , Florida flowing into the
Gulf of Mexico

Author’s note: The word hǣlan is
old English for healing.