“Some of our conversations”

after Carrie Newcomer

Some of our conversations have become
songs. The air that is essential silence
humming comfortably beyond all sense.
In sparer moments out of blue, a psalm
for every consequence — delight, appeal,
lament, contentment with a job well done,
a catch at martins tending urgent young.
Angelic frequencies re-tuning all

my worrying away at memories
of awkward words — those sighs and groanings spun
to lyrics in unfathomable tongues,
a miracle of calming harmonies
that, soothing, hush to pulsing lullaby —
our songs that hold the light at close of day.

Clare Bryden “Some of our conversations”, The Silken Twine, Black Ven Poets, Strand #1, May 2026, online.

after a line from “Carrie Newcomer: A Conversation with Music”, On Being with Krista Tippett, 31 December 2015.