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Letter From the Desert: Enter Summer

Letter From the Desert: Enter Summer

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Chris Clarke
May 23, 2022
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Letter From the Desert: Enter Summer
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The lesser nighthawks are back. They fly in the evening, as the air temperature cools just enough to lure flying insects from the shade.

My first summer in the desert, they were almost my sole source of joy. That was hardly the desert’s fault. I had just sloughed off a life; a dry shed that left itself in tatters, took some flesh with it. But the nightha…

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