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Issue 31, Erotica - Spring, 2000

Poems

Joy Yourcenar


 

Gloria in Angelis

The inconsistent moonlight
from the bedroom window
covers your pale body
like a second silver skin,
intermittently bathing you
in shadows of redemption.
Flesh luminous as archangels,
you are the ecstasy
of my dreams
and the alabaster incarnation
of sensual mysticism.
Blinded by your radiance,
I need your seraphim soft whisper
to guide me through
the temple of your mystery
to a place of rapture.
Penitent,
I lay my forehead
on the altar of your belly,
asking for and receiving
the miracle of grace.

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Joy Yourcenar writes: I am a poet, expatriate and freelance technical editor lucky enough to live and write in Halifax, Nova Scotia with my life partner, the photographer Eric Boutilier-Brown, and my daughter, Zöe-Genevieve, future empress of the known world. I have two personal websites: Mythologies (my own site) and icon/graphy (a collaborative visual poetry site with Eric). I have been published on-line in Conspire, Gravity, The Astrophysicist Tango Partner Speaks, Mentress Moon and The Initiative and off-line in The Maine Review, The Stolen Island Review, and Silhouettes in the Electric Sky. The best way to get to know me is through my poetry.