Re: Isis in Denial / Joy Yourcenar

> George Dance wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> Isis in Denial
> 
> On the evershifting river's edge.
> in the shadow
> of future pyramids,
> Isis weeps for Osiris,
> clutching the gory bites
> of her cannibalized love
> in small, tear-stained hands.
> 
> Her black hair curtain
> flows like a river
> raging tenderly,
> bathing the  lost god's
> dismembered corpse
> in the wine  of remembrance,
> her history residing
> in the scintillating rays
> of his infrequent smiles.
> 
> Carnal knowledge incarnate,
> she incubates her god,
> feeling him form in her.
> Isis, belligerent and bulimic,
> gorges on  his salty,
> insufficient flesh
> hoping to ingest
> enough masculinity
> to regurgitate him
> naked, perfect and whole.
> 
> On her knees
> on burning sand,
> Isis chokes
> on blood and semen;
> convulsed by revulsion,
> yet compelled to re-enact
> this postcoital fleshfeast.
> 
> Sticking her tallow- stained hand
> down her own throat,
> Isis shudders
> from the self-inflicted
> violence of Osiris' creation
> and vomiting bone and gristle,
> sacrifices herself
> to give Osiris life.
> 
> 
> ---
> Joy Yourcenar, writing as "[email protected]"
> Feb. 10, 1997
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> "This is revolting and disgusting.
> And you call this poetry????????
> Sick to my stomach, Sharon"
> - Sharon McElroy on "Isis in Denial"
> 
> 
> 
> --



Again, excellent poetry by the late Joy Y.

I don't remember, do you have a Wiki biography page about Joy, GJD? 


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