a tiny brass lid

(book dated 2/27/94)

A tiny brass lid covered the only
entrance to an underground cave
that went horizontally at a depth
of twelve feet like a subway tunnel and then
all the way under the harbor and
surfaced at the end of the airport
runway just when the wheels of an
l-1011 widebody were touching down.
A flotilla of fully loaded ships hovered
in the harbor above the tunnel and you
could stand at the top of a sky scraper
and look down on the tiny brass lid
that fluttered and shook making a
clanking noise and let loose a few
puffs of wind that had bounced from
the wings of the airplane as it landed
and travelled through the tunnel
beneath a hundred feet of solid granite
and harbor water and colossal welded
steel ships