Rick Mullin s Transom is a poet s Odyssey through the year 2016 set primarily in the financial district of Manhattan. The poems are written in a 15-line sonnet variant of Mullin's device, a form called the Third Sancerre. With views of the city from the docks at Hoboken s Lackawanna Terminal, from the top deck of the Ferry Stevens, and from the city s oldest streets there are a few excursions to such places as Lake Charles, LA; Ithaca, NY; Cape May, NJ; and Cologne,Germany Transom logs the portents, "public and personal" of a transitional year.