Fathom

fathoms speak to sounding lines
measured by the un
a starving case of longer spines
tomes as high as rooms

eat the wise and count the deep
call them not the same
as the proud triumphant sleep
dream an ocean shame

measure once and cut across
lawns that grip the grass
spiky shoes and heartfelt loss
meadow sharp-tail mass

hunt for food or fire or friend
catch illumination
none can claim the floor the end
snatches germination

newness greens at fraught suggestion
having not the frame
artists painting indigestion
so stomachs handle shame