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72 The Sound of Sunlight On the far side of the canyon light is burning through two draws like water rushing into an empty riverbed. A canyon wren opens her mouth and a coyote stops midtrail before vanishing among juniper. As we descend the eastern wall we look down onto ponderosa pine and witness the shadow of a merlin chase 73 the merlin itself. Behind us in the meadow where we lay last night the squall of an elk picks up the sound of sunlight and joins it in a flood of bugling. ...

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