Wham! Bam! The I Am slammed
Jacob at the Jabbok's fork,
for baptism is a contact sport:
like Jonah swallowed by the sea
or Peter sunk in Galilee.
Tag the new man in; tag out the old--
heart circumcised by submission hold.
For we limp by faith and not by sight
and hobble off alive despite
our hobbling by baptismal might.
