Writer's Excerpts

Transi(en)t Love

by Tanya Bryan

published in TOK: Writing the New City - Book 4

another night on the 504
while away the time watching
the sidewalk crawl beside me

I saw the worn leather boots first
pumping to reach their stop
ahead of my streetcar

black and silver boots running
as the metal beast clacks along
he barely makes it

“thank you” his thick Scottish accent
tumbles through the car at me
and I’m in love with a punk rock boy...

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