Emerging into Empire

Arrival. US Airways terminal, National Airport, Washington, D.C.

 

 

Metro tunnel, Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.

 

Metro Tunnel Entrance/Exit, Dupont Circle

 

Thus in silence in dreams’ projections,
Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hospitals,
The hurt and wounded I pacify with soothing hand,
I sit by the restless all the dark night, some are so young,
Some suffer so much, I recall the experience sweet and sad.
Walt Whitman, "The Wound Dresser:"