My Fish Girl by John Greiner

My fish girl

I know why

            you float

amongst the wondrously

hued fish in the ocean

caught in the sky

            blue

your eyes are blue

beyond the sky

though the clouds

            pass by

the lighthouse

            far-off

awaits the lighting

of the night

for all the ships

            with sailors

who hope to never swim

amongst the fish and you

            who float

my fish girl

I know why

you don't swim

John Greiner is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer living in Queens, NY. He was educated at the New School for Social Research.  Greiner's work has appeared in Sand, Empty Mirror, Sensitive Skin, Unarmed, Street Valueand numerous other magazines. His chapbooks, broadsides and collections of poetry and short stories includeTurnstile Burlesque (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2017), The Laundrymen(Wandering Head Press, 2016), Bodega Roses (Good Cop/Bad Cop Press, 2014),Modulation Age (Wandering Head Press, 2012), Shooting Side Glances(ISMs Press, 2011) and Relics From a Hell’s Kitchen Pawn Shop (Ronin Press, 2010).