like some figure crawling up from the deep

you arose from the swamp-part of my life

but i loved the swamp...and you

beauty lay in the depth and surface

it takes a boat to transverse its shallows

and in stillness to discover creatures there

and so in you wonders of God's grace

brought forth joy and and laughter's heartening glee

when life seemed dull and joy abandoned me

beauty lay not where we wish and but where it is

when eyes behold what's hidden in the drink