This week, Broad Street recommends a dreamlike collage essay by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher (whose piece in the “Hunt, Gather” issue recently was called “superb” in a review by New Pages). In “Artifacts,” published in the current issue of Newfound Journal, Fletcher offers an intimate, impressionistic portrait of his mother, who we see in a series of snapshots of the varied artifacts she rescues from the Southwestern landscape to adorn her home:
Bones. Dug from the badlands west of Albuquerque. Pitched onto our roof to bleach in the summer sun. Cow skulls. Horse jaws. Elk antlers. Deer horns. Wired to the vigas, placed beside the church bench, scattered among the choya. Blooming from the shadows, white as lilies.
— From Artifacts
Click here to go to Newfound Journal and read the full essay. For more on Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, check out his website.
