all poems © Joy Yourcenar
all images © Eric Boutilier-Brown
page last updated on July 22, 2002
These poems deal with the sensual side of love and explore the mutual joys of physicality. They are explicit in language and subject not to shock, offend or titillate but to try to capture the intimate pulse of an erotic moment...passionately intense and completely open to the lover. I believe that when we separate ourselves from our sensual side and retreat into a culture of shame, we are denying an essential part of ourselves.
Shower
April 10, 1997
Dreamscape
November 4, 1997
Gloire de la Salle de Bain
June 1, 1997
Physicality
August 19, 1997