High Rise

Fawn high rise of Beijing
with wristwatch-shaped
air conditioners on each window

and burglar bars to the tenth
level in each new city,
white-belted cylinders of dwelling

around every Hong Kong bay –
Latest theory is, the billions
will slow their overbreeding

only when consuming in the sky.
Balconious kung fu of Shanghai.
A nineteenth floor lover

heroic among consumer goods
slips off the heights of desire
down the going-home high wire –

above all the only children.