spleen locus

crimson sky  collapsed 

                          in trance ~ 

                 distant shore swooning —

         dissolved baleen …crescent moon landed 

                               in  sunset  s p l e e n ~   

            narrowing focus to locus ______



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Bronze Winner: Shortform Poetry 
Prompt : crimson haze
Allpoetry. com : May 26
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May 24, 2026 at 11:32 PM
gorgeous, I looked up words here to understand the full extent of this- what a deep thinker <3
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