A Guest Along Cottonwood Creek
I spent many years in this cabin in Lupine Meadows, but in many ways, I was only a guest.
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The bats and the mice
wonder
When their guest will leave.
The pronghorn, too, were seasonal guests.
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The Two Kings
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