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.
Listen to “Welcome to This House,” “What She Looked Out Upon,” “Kore,” “Beyond the Sweet Season,” “A Hunger Artist,” and ” The Sudden Tug of the Familiar,” read by Faye George:
Listen “Kore,” and “Welcome to This House” (from A Wound On Stone) and “Journey” (from George’s third book, Marchenhaft, Earthwinds Editions, 2008), read by Faye George at Perugia Press’s 20th anniversary celebration at Smith College on November 12, 2016:
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