swim

all you fish,
swim, swim.
swim towards the great towers,
to the empire,
to the flat iron,
swim towards
towards the Lincoln
tunnel,
the Holland,
across the bridges
into queens,
the Bronx.
swim in bright colors
to harlem,
sing your blues and swim
to Washington
square with your grand
arch,
downtown, to sheeps
meadow,
to battery,
through the zoo
and park, swim you fish
in the glitter
of times square,
bend your fins,
the gold of you,
the green, the spangles
of you.
swim as you've always
done,
without sleep, the pulse
unrelenting.
swim swim swim
old city.