Poem: A Friend reads Psalm 139 in Meeting

'Poem: A Friend reads Psalm 139 in Meeting' by Lucy Crispin

by Lucy Crispin 15th November 2019

I sit in a different seat today.
Cutting it fine, Friends slip in,
join the deepening stillness.
The crunch of tyres on gravel,
a door-tongue carefully released,
the known slow tap of ferrule on floorboard:
the small sounds stir the silence
which settles again, as water over a pebble
or a shaken sheet drifting down;
like heat on spread limbs
after the breeze has dropped.