» Nugget «

2012

Öl auf Leinwand und Melted Collage

45 x 45 cm || 17.6 x 17.6 inches

Ausstellungen:
2013 Galerie im Kreishaus, Warendorf
2014 Kunstsaal des Kunstvereins Kreis Soest "Minor Mundus Petrolei"
2014 Musikschule Warstein "Interdependencias"

» Black «

2012

Öl auf Leinwand und Melted Collage

45 x 45 cm || 17.6 x 17.6 inches

» No Separation «

2012

Öl auf Leinwand und Melted Collage

45 x 45 cm || 17.6 x 17.6 inches

i must write
or one day will blend
into the next
and the next
and
dawn and dusk
will have no
separation
for windows
are shut
doors are not opened
and alas
lightbulb light
knows not the
day from the night
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Cloud Over Lake «

2012

Öl auf Leinwand und Melted Collage

45 x 45 cm || 17.6 x 17.6 inches

"Cumulus"
clouds are vapor
birds fly through
airplanes fly through
yet clouds
hold rainstorms
and billions of drops
that destroy and that
give sustenance
but they are clouds
just vapor too light
to hold in ones hand
vapor that slides through
ones fingers and through
the valleys of life and death
snow flake
clouds so heavy they bend
a mama's back
clouds so heavy they mask the sun
and steal
a child's last breath
for a chilled and clouded mind
cannot live to see another icicle day
so it suicides the cloud away
a cloud that was just vapor
a thought that could not be
unthought
vapor so heavy
that it left a dent a hollowed out place
a dip where
a child who once thought
will never think
again
an accumulated cumulus
a latin heap a pile, a heap of puffy
nothings
that birds and airplanes
fly through
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Pollutants «

2012

Melted Collage

44 x 62 cm || 17.2 x 24.2 inches

Pollutants
what pollutes
the polluter
that he or she
would soil mother earth
with pollutants?
the rusty can of childhood negligence
plastic breasts of latex and
nipple implants
we are the stuff
of which cans
are made of
peek a boo
peep-eye too
games turn tricks
into cans
tickle me here
tickle me there
lower...lower
if you dare, dare, double dare
triple dog dare
touch me not flowers that
become touch me so and so's
jonesing over
keeping up with the joneses
cans, cans, cans
unloving reprimands
can-can
poop poop pee do
show your ankle too
i'm bad, i'm bad
you show me your can
and i'll show you mine
blind uncle bunt
back from Afghanistan
adorns the corner of
second and noplace place
holding his can low
for his groin now knows
a nickel from a quarter
remembering when
toots, firecracker and juice
jumped him in
to make him a man
they're all dead
now he's a can with a can
hey mister can,
can you spare a dime
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Dandelion Puffs «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

Feeling Sexy
let us blow
dandelion puffs
together
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Pollination «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

Hover Bee
Joy boy
tells her
all the words
she longs to hear,
but lies entangle
her trust,
hog tied to fetid
pastures of stubble
surrounded by
desert sand storms.
she chews grit
from the air
and breathes
shards of acid promises.
however, joy boy
patiently smooths
honey on her
open wounds.
he tends her like
a hover bee
pollinating
her womb
with his
love
joy boy
tells her
and
tells her
and
tells her
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Illicit Affair «

2012

Melted Collage

44 x 32 cm || 17.2 x 12.5 inches

Illicit Affair
when last we kissed
i missed because
you were not there
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Twins «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

Twins of a Different Mother
it
amazes
me
how we can be
soooo like minded
and
yet so
totally different
in the exact same
different way
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Call Any Vegetable «

2012

Melted Collage

44 x 32 cm || 17.2 x 12.5 inches

Title after a song by Frank Zappa.

"Steve Jobs Complex"
they hurt everyone
around them
as proof that
they existed
take them not seriously
because they take
not themselves
and scoffed at those
who did
they hurt everyone
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» U Jane «

2012

Melted Collage

44 x 32 cm || 17.2 x 12.5 inches

Ausstellungen:
2014 LWL Warstein "Mensch entfalten"

"Tarzan"
the more i
studied the
less i learned
punctuations
start new sentences,
contractions
don't empower
those in labor,
propositions
understand prepositions
no matter where
they land at.
studying only taught me
how dumb i
wasn't.
history taught me
stupid people
make slaves and
concentration camps,
science taught me
"e" is not the first letter in green
but the mass in the speed of destruction.
smart people wear
long hair
as they make love songs for whales
and turn water into wine.
school is for sissies.
life is for the educated.
Tarzan had it right.
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» The Weak Seek «

2012

Melted Collage

44 x 32 cm || 17.2 x 12.5 inches

"No Time"
the weak
seek her
and nurse her dry
those with power
shower her
with abstacles
there is no time
to ask either
why?
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» On The Yellow Brick Road «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

"The Wish"
her heart ached
like a rotting molar pillaging
her thoughts
and karate chopping her spine
and stagnating her steps.
her love felt weak
and clumsy
befriended by the drone
of the fan
swallowing the heat of her
wish for a man.
follow the yellow brick road,
follow the yellow brick road,
follow the yellow brick road.
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» A Poem for the First Lady «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

Ausstellungen:
2014 LWL Warstein "Mensch entfalten"

"First Lady"
she had
potions and roots
and ashes and soots
of words that
cast spells and
undid
lying tells
she was his
First Lady.
she thought deeply
and slept a shallow night.
she reprocessed molecules
warmed the chill of words that bite
she was his
First Lady.
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Woolly Lamb Of A Lion «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

"Acceptance"
she accepted him
for what he was
but she soon realized
he really was
who he wasn't
he was a hell raising conformist
and a woolly lamb of a lion
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Die seltsamen Heiligen «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

Ausstellungen:
2014 LWL Warstein "Mensch entfalten"

"Purely American"
she found something
she lost
but couldn't figure
out what it was
or
why she had gotten it
in the first place
she was
purely American
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Kilometer Null «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

Ausstellungen:
2014 LWL Warstein "Mensch entfalten"

» Weathering The Storm «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

"Ocean Or No Ocean" or "Weathering The Storm"
you are free
as always to
poem or not to poem the poem,
I judge you not,
I say
let our arts speak for themselves,
if you are in conflict
with the trees of my poem
you are free to uproot it or censure it from your forest,
or better yet to not ever let it be planted.
we can dance the dance of avoidance
play a one sided
nice nice with patriotism
and nice nice with godless religions
ocean or no ocean
I shall continue to art
you know the slant of your market
you choose the poems
for that slant
you have always had the
freedom to do that
you and only you
know the motive of the market you seek
ocean or no ocean
I shall continue to art
you say that i would not
like a person who does not
speak his whole self
yet always people prefer that
I speak less than the fullness of me
you say
"my patriotism will not be
taken seriously in any way in Europe"
ocean or no ocean
I shall continue to art
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» Saat des Unfriedens «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

"War Stars"
the ocean roars
its power in my brain
unlocking the chains
of refrain
to seek and walk
the necessary talk
to right a world
to sight a man
to plight a war
to recover a star
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]

» The Crush «

2012

Melted Collage

32 x 44 cm || 12.5 x 17.2 inches

Ausstellungen:
2013 Galerie im Kreishaus, Warendorf

"The Crush"
why would he
tie me in a knot
and leave me there
[Yolantha Harrison-Pace]