BEYOND A QUARREL AND A COMPROMISE*

Opposites don’t

have to collide 

as contradictions.

Paradox

would have us

blend and transpose 

them into 

each other

like overlapping 

circles

to create 

a new thing

a third thing:

a space 

between

that is shared

as a harmony

a unity 

a dignity

a worth 

wholly and holy 

combined.

*From Robert A. Johnson’s, Owing Your Own Shadow