Grey white steam lifted across a drying-up estuary. In thin rain spluttering over an elevated iron-riveted painted girder-bridge, built-on pillars of a deep-red local stone and brickwork, arched and breached. With the Suns’-rays the train rattled-on emergent, as through a fog over a beached river, onto the other-side of a ravenous gaping-gorge.
Over-spilling through the outskirts of a more recently built-up ancient sea-harbour and river port, and suburban edge-of-Town. High-Rise Housing-Project, Industrial-Units, Business-Park, and Shopping-Mall. Home-Furniture. Motor-Car showrooms.
Salesrooms, cheap-hotel and motel linked razor-wire fenced, chained-in. A horse-paddock, gated and padlocked, adjacent to a blue-green to red-waiting train-crossing signal. Freight-Train, privileged-over passenger passaged prerogative, thundering-by…
The Passenger-Train trundling along for now, beside a chequered yellow and black no-entry arterial hot tar-road weighted heavy and ever busy with ‘bus and coach, cycle and motor cycle.
Car-engine-chassis&trailer…caravan motor-home articulated juggernaut vehicles, goods and stocks container shipments on-board.
Onto and beneath the over-passing concrete-highway into, and out of Town. All traffic travelling with almost one accord: to-and-from galvanized corrugated iron steel and zinc tin roved roofing; between brick and-cinderblock doorways, loading and unloading bays beneath open canopy entrance letter and number laser bar-coded, and secured.
Offices air-extracting for the most-part to the outside world.
Un-seen:as:'@windowless between belching cooling-tower, pylon-linking electric-welding workshop engineering factory-crafted.
Machined, and handmade goods, food and furniture, packaged, warehoused, and shipped virtually to-and-from: The City Ports and Portals’ co-modifying in-return. Stock-yards stacked-up, and in-exchange goods’ value-assured, awaiting, transport: to-and-from: Home and Away…
