Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Von Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine.

Each week we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

Jake Skeets is a Dene poet for Vanderwagon, New Mexico.

He is the author of Eyes Bottled Dark and A Mouthful of flowers, a National Poetry Series-winning collection of poems.

In this essay, Jake explores Apocalypse, Time, and Futurity

from a Dene perspective,

observing the grief that has arisen in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

He considers how hope might be reimagined.

Yates, she a, Jake Skiy Tzini, Sannan, Sannanich Nishlin,

to go on the Baja Chaiynda, Tchini, Daeshichuio, Turok Ojan, and Nella.

Hello everybody, my name is Jake, and I'll be reading from my essay, The Other House, Musings on the Dene perspective of Time.

My family tells many stories.

They are the best storytellers.

They use language efficiently and precisely. They have a keen sense and understanding of time.

It is through the reimagining of time within their storytelling that they conjure survivants.

Of course, we are not allowed to gather today as the world battles a virus.

As a child, I remember the many times my family gathered over mutton, watermelon, and tortillas.

We gathered near our Hogan at the other house.

My aunts and their families live a short walk from my childhood home.

We all refer to their collective homes as the other house. Each home of the other house holds

memories that I remember during these long, tense days.

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