"The Skyscraper Loves Night"
by Carl Sandburg
ONE by one lights of a skyscraper fling their checkering cross work on the velvet gown of night.
I believe the skyscraper loves night as a woman and brings her playthings she asks for, brings her a velvet gown,
The masonry of steel looks to the night for somebody it loves,
He is a little dizzy and almost dances … waiting … dark …