Harper Lewis
Bio
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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Ai Art Ain’t Easy
I use chatGPT (and sometimes Gemini) to create the images to accompany my pieces. It’s not a cop out—it’s work. I painstakingly give my prompts, drawing on my knowledge of Art history, mentioning specific artists and paintings for references, clearly explaining the aesthetics and techniques I want employed, and sometimes it works beautifully, and I get images that work well with my pieces. Sometimes it happens in the first draft, like this:
By Harper Lewis4 months ago in Writers
Waves
I believe people should get a proper send off when they leave this world, so I say my farewells on the beach, with castles made of sand and flying colors in the sky. My dad’s send off was my second one doing it my way, rather our way— I said goodbye to Elizabeth in the sky from the sand; I said goodbye to my dad in the sand and water.
By Harper Lewis4 months ago in Chapters
Fabric of You
The ivory jersey dress hangs in my closet nearly forty years into this tapestry, despite the years outside the loom. The flannel of your voice is the dominant fabric, sometimes just a thread between those velvet looks, silken caresses, and cashmere kisses that haunt my waking dreams, the burlap that terrorizes me in the conscious nightmares, the great holes, the gap bound by leather cords to the wool that eventually relaxes into the cotton and linen of our separate lives: light, easy things with their own special threads, patterns and ravels. Now, as I force those leather cords through the thousand thread count sheets we blindly wove to comfort us through the darkest night, I don’t know what your next thread will be: denim? gabardine? merino? but I feel you spinning it and know it will eventually weave into the textile of my life, and I will wear that dress again.
By Harper Lewis4 months ago in Poets
