Joy Olivia Yourcenar

Nattering On the Sublime

Epiphanies of pyramid stacked Fisher snow plow blades
undulating yellow against a red brick wall
chased me all the way home from the Chevy dealership.
Chest burning, I burst into your kitchen,
and tried to articulate the fury of my after school vision,
to recreate, for you, my redgold glimpse into the sublime.
Through your rippling incomprehension, I heard
the gradual silencing of every gypsy mandolin.
By the time you looked up from doing dishes
to remind me to take off my sneakers in the house,
reticence had grown in me like a corruption of black pearl.

Joy Olivia 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, Zoe-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 Gravity, The Astrophysicist Tango Partner Speaks, Avalon and The Initiative and off-line in The Maine Review, The Stolen Island Review, and Silhouettes in the Electric Sky. In August, 1999, Ryan Deschamps and I will be hosting Bareit's Private Tears, the 1999 Canadian picnic for rec.arts.poems. The best way to get to know me is through my poetry.