Robert Creeley
Kore
As I was walking
I came upon
chance walking
the same road upon.
As I sat down
by chance to move
later
if and as I might,
light the wood was,
light and green,
and what I saw
before I had not seen.
It was a lady
accompanied
by goat men
leading her.
Her hair held earth.
Her eyes were dark.
A double flute
made her move.
‘O love,
where are you
leading
me now?'
Robert Creeley, The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1945-1975,University of California Press, 1982.