The woman sat in one of the many waiting rooms, staring out a large, double paned window. It was night out, the stars flickering in the dark sky. Clouds hovered just east of the horizon, promising rain in the near future.
She was thinking… yet again… of the conversation she had had with the captain. Haylee [...]

She watches them.
Them with the flirty glances,
The hauty looks.
Them with the little skirts
And the way too tight shirts.
And she wonders…
What would it be like?
To feel confident.
To feel respected.
But she knows she has these things.
These feelings of being confident,
Of being respected.
She doesn’t have to be
Told it.
For Sarah…

To a dark place a person does not go,
Where the birds twitter and fly without Grace,
And the air smells and seeps of things untold,
Who leave no sign and hide without a trace.
It is a place where strutting danger lurks,
Testing the Truths and Lies of human kind,
Questioning all of our hidden hurts,
Without ever thinking it will [...]

a fleeting look
the silent breath
worlds could not have
–understood.
a bleeding touch
the moaning heart
nothing
nothing
nothing
did it have to be such?
have to fade away?
a fool, a fool
but no regret
for
having loved you

The sadness drifts
As I sit – here –
In an empty room.
Reality – unfriendly –
Knocks at my door again.
No more innocence,
The last box looms.
Another good-bye –
A last farewell –
I place Squiggy in the box.

on the western front…
I always wanted to say that. Today seems like a good day. Nothing is happening. I’m sitting in the site office bored out my freaking skull.
One thing is so nice. I have hardly any responsiblity. I go out and watch’em place fill. Then I run to the lab in town and do [...]

I’m in Nome… which, when I got here, has been in the negative 20s. Yes, a little on the chilly side. Fuuun. I’m not doing too much. I’m mostly watching mine placed fill and doing lab work with a mix of paperwork. The only other catch is its all on nightshift. This would be my [...]