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Faye George’s newest collection, Back Roads, was published by Rock Village Publishing in 2003. George’s poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Yankee, Audubon’s Sanctuary, and a range of university press quarterlies, literary periodicals, and anthologies. She is a recipient of the Arizona Poetry Society’s Memorial Award, the New England Poetry Club’s Gretchen Warren Award and Erika Mumford Prize. She has published two chapbooks, Only The Words and Naming The Place: The Weymouth Poems in 1995 and 1996.
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KORE
Flowers drew me forth
that time when I went out
and the ground beneath my feet
fell away.
I held on to the stems
as the dark pulled me in,
held on as if I clutched
the light of the world in my hand,
not the torn throats
of narcissus blooms.
Through the long night
in the iron earth
I clung to the fickleness
of beauty, the only candle
for the tomb.
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