by Jacqueline Coleman-Fried
Wild lilac orchids frame
a garden curled in jade
rainforest, where two ask,
How are we so lucky when the sons
of Abraham are fighting?
The state built on ash
in the desert kills to survive.
A heel smashes a glass.
Jacqueline Coleman-Fried is a poet in Tuckahoe, NY. Her work has appeared in The New Verse News, Topical Poetry, Consequence, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and Sparks of Calliope.