Stain, Imprint, Communion (Imprint)

By Harrison Candelaria Fletcher

Issue 39 • Spring 2019 • Nonfiction

IMPRINT


Beside the  river head  low on your knees  stained-glass sky  hymn of the llano 

between your fingers silver beads drip a liquid chain an absent cross misplaced 

or lost never actually  worn the weight enough to keep you  reaching both hands 

grasping at memory’s emulsion the persistent reflection of all it once held.

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.