- The diving board of the community swimming pool.
- On top of the stump of a tree that has fallen over sideways in a dry creek bed, the root system exposed: it is ten feet tall.
- The farthest back pew in a thickly carpeted protestant sanctuary with only the altar lights on; 8pm, a Wednesday.
- A basement in Felony Flats with a dirty floor and torn tapestries hanging on the wall; it smells like spilled cooking sherry and mildew.
- The Smoky Mountains.
- A plastic yellow bench on the top level of a ferry travelling across the Puget Sound.
- In a cobblestone alley in a hot place, but under the shade of a nearby building, leaning against a cold marble wall, knowing it is real marble because it is cold to touch even in this hot place.
- The impressionism wing of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Outside of a bar on a sidewalk curb that was built for a time when there were still carriages running the city streets, next to a dumpster with wet pieces of cardboard spilling out and a smashed banana and a broken Miller Lite bottle inside a plastic bag on the ground.
- US Highway 97 (The Dalles-California Highway), at dusk.
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