Stain, Imprint, Communion (Communion)

By Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Issue 39 • Spring 2019 • Nonfiction

COMMUNION

Kicked from red dirt the toe of your boot on an acequia curve a labyrinthine 

eye in sun-striped shadow once part of a vessel now shaped by the break its 

black-and-white edges a roadmap home against your palm align the lines a leaf 

unfolds across the Rio Grande Valley grafting contours completing the whole.

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of the award-winning Descanso For My Father: Fragments of a Life and Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams. His personal essays, lyric essays and prose poems have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Programs at Colorado State University and Vermont College of Fine Arts and is currently at work on a book-length essay exploring liminal spaces and hybridity. A native New Mexican, he lives in Fort Collins with his wife and two children.