“Don’t doubt that, when you lend your meaning and magic to a place, something Other awakens into it.”

“Don’t doubt that, when you lend your meaning and magic to a place, something Other awakens into it.”
[fragment] “You weren’t from the forest and now you are, the forest that was before, the ghost-trees and spectral ferns, Elk crashing through bramble, startled by a voice still echoing from the past….”
…when tongue and lip have no other demand