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Excerpting Senior Writers: Carla Ferreira '12

Ferreira reflects on her poetry thesis.

as doors close and open and everything

pushes towards a pause while the sun melts

in echoes over rooftops and fire escapes and windows

overlooking the route, leaving the rest to a silence

of darkening shadow.  Each new image flashing

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through the scratched windows into transit,

motioning forward an architectural silhouette,

leaving the small spaces of textured brick and

pavement carved into mathematical grids.

The train moves on towards Grand and Division,

marking what it may, leaving its tracks behind.

In Transit

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