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It is a metaphor, and it does make sense in the way that metaphors and similes make a poetic sense that transcends the ordinary sense of common (and often chaotic) prose.  The poem is suggesting that the Gulf, which was (as I, and many others, believe) constructed by Christ Himself, is available to all people to enjoy; whereas  the marble tanks we create in which to splash about are often restricted as to access.  Even in the small town in which I grew up, the "Aquatic Club" restricted membership to certain income levels, residential areas, and ethnic groups.  In my early years of grade school, I had some dear friends who, in the prevalent parlance of the day, lived "over there"; and I could not, then, comprehend why they were not given access to the aquatic club like my parents had obtained for me.  

Unfortunately, the perception of the Republican party is that it promotes such divisions and restrictions and exults in them.  And the soul of that party seems now to be possessed by the Innkeeper, who used the Holy Bible and the setting of an Anglican church for a photo-op.  Part of human nature, part of our broken-ness, is that we rely far too much on perception and circumstantial aspects:  thus, a carpenter from Galilee, Whose birth circumstances were deemed "questionable," was perceived, by some, to lack spiritual wisdom and authority; and, on the other hand, an unemployed housepainter, who had dodged the draft in his own country and had engaged in an incestuous relationship with his own niece, was perceived as a "man of destiny."