all poems © Joy Yourcenar
all images © Eric Boutilier-Brown
page last updated on July 22, 2002

We embark on voyages of exploration when we enter an intimate relationship, discovering ourselves in the uncharted country of the other. We yearn to map intimacy and settle into love, like immigrants making a home in a new land.

Leaving Lingers
February 14, 1998

Widow's Walk
June 19, 1997

Seraphim
June 17, 1998

Wondering the Prairies
July 15, 1999

   The Quarry
January 19,1999

Sextant
July 1,1999