@sonyasupposedly
Here's my synthesis of all three drafts, with a couple small additions:
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Sky melting.
Ancient glass
where colors conspire.
Time itself becomes a stranger's face.
Sun-flushed petals wait, upturned
like wounds in the dark.
Stem, thorn, the jagged edge of
each curling leaf
slash against the evening haze.
Deep blue settles.
A single breath between
being and fading.
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What do you think? Please evaluate the poem critically like an astute English professor to give me feedback.