7.

Compose nearly satiated
by late and before it, the thinning 
its magenta 
the weeds' dense roots

withers, winter 
the year's apex to freeze there clutch 
the mud the mosquitoes 

Almost satiated: amorphous swathes of 
persist among fuller and at the marsh's edge
sunstruck and quiescent
practicing for 

Cormorants atop 				(get this right)