Anew

By Jacqueline Coleman-Fried

There comes a spring

so watercolor blue

and butter sunlight

a new love climbs

the sloped shoulders

of numb mourning

and raises her arms

to the enduring sky.

Jacqueline Coleman-Fried is a poet living in Tuckahoe, NY. Her work has appeared in Sheila-Na-Gig, Nixes Mate, Streetlight Magazine, Consequence, New Verse News and The Orchards Poetry Journal.