Harvest Season
Harvest Season is a contrapuntal poem that embodies the essence of yearning, meant to be read from left to right descending, or separately.
i saw how remnants of stardust lingered
in your eyes, the starry-eyed sheep frolicking.
Process
Harvest Season is a contrapuntal poem that embodies the essence of yearning. Throughout the years, I’ve unearthed love not only in romantic endeavors but also in the rekindling of affection with my friends and family. The fall season, with its palpable sense of longing, inspired the title “Harvest Season.” For me, autumn signifies a period brimming with anticipation akin to a “first time,” evoking the excitement of shared memories with cherished individuals.
The origin of this work traces back to the content explored in the poetry course. Initially, I sought to evoke themes reminiscent of ekphrastic poetry, painting vivid scenes of rural night skies. This can be seen in the poem on the left. However, as I delved deeper into the verses, I felt compelled to intertwine my emotions of love and heartache, and that developed into the right poem. I felt that these would naturally coalesce into a contrapuntal poem, unified by themes of lush greenery, illustrating how my yearning intertwines with the natural landscape. This fusion allowed the poems to evoke a specific time and place, inviting the reader to envisage scenes that mirror my perception of love, and reflect back to those that I had once loved in the past.
Gwendolyn Hewlett
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Gwendolyn Hewlett
Gwendolyn Hewlett is a queer Asian author, accountant in the entertainment industry by day, but an artist by evening. Their love for art is voracious, unbound, and freeing, juxtaposed by analyzing variances, creating budgets, and reviewing numbers in their mornings. When not writing or crunching numbers, they can be found strumming on the guitar or bowing on the violin. They have been previously published in The Palouse Review and The Peache Project. They are also featured in Power Poetry’s 2020 annual anthology for upcoming writers.
