Fionnáin quoted Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
But then again, maybe it showed how readily, in this unfixed place, the visible shifts. Transformation is possible. A bear can become a bird. A sea can vanish, rivers change course. The past can spill out of the earth, become the present.
— Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie (Page 31)
In a section where Jamie mistakes a shape on the landscape for a bear. It turns out to be a raven. She is working on an archaeological dig in the Alaskan tundra, and is referencing this landscape.