a Gideon sucker
lappers headed home
water’s divisions,
lines 
sans-blurred
two inches under that’s a drown
fire stops water, pas-around
O,  sink sank sunken
all sterns manmade, pas-begotten 
truenorthavenue: "In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, Simplify." h.d. Thoreau