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Summer Light: A Failed Essay in Four Parts – Jake Skeets

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Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Mar 17, 2026
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2012
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Summary

This week, Diné poet Jake Skeets brings us into the rising dust, big sky, and bent light of summers on the Navajo Nation, and explores how the body is not separate from the seasons, rather one of the many terrains upon which they play out. Now living amid excessive heat warnings, sandstorms, and wildfire haze that test his love of the summer, Jake asks how such extremes will reshape our intimate and ancestral relationship with the seasons. Read the essay. Discover our latest print edition, Volume 6: Seasons . Image Credit: Evelyn Dragan / Connected Archives