SI Vault First of Two Installments: THE HEAVEN BELOW Clare
Boothe Luce August 11, 1958 It lay in the crystal waters of a
Bahamas reef and was found after days of storm. It was, as
always, a place of beauty and adventure, a new world Decrease
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First Of Two Installments: The Heaven Below   View CoverRead All
Articles View This Issue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  *"The Reef
Fisher," from Collected Poems. Reprinted by permission of
Houghton Mifflin Co.  Afternoon. Sky clear; water so smooth
sargassum weed floats on surface, motionless.  Art knows it is
our turn, the turn of the lens-divers and the joy-divers. He
gears up cheerfully. He drops me gently off the stern, and I
gear up in the water, still sparing the back. I level off and,
clearing my ears, glide down slowly....  This at last is it: the
magic mansions of the sunlit reef, the heaven below. I swim down
through liquid green heavens, down through the poem of the sea.
Down to delicate castles of convol