"One place leads directly to another, thank the dancing deities. There are familiar places; remembered places, burnished as driftwood; imagined places; glimpsed passerine places, rootless as petrels, places we can never find again. There are places like stone and places like oil. There are sacred places rising from sea level, places more one-and-only than all the others. There is the birthplace, certifiable by the olfactory, and the final resting place, and all the in-betweens of dovetailed scenery and sweet locus pocus."

--Merrill Gilfillan, Chokecherry Places, Locus Pocus