April In a snow deep meadow of suburban backyards on a clothesline, a single sweater, bright crocus yellow, swings on a hanger, as if my neighbor, impatient, has folded this field into a chalice of white, spiked it with yellow stamens and made her own spring.
Rita Moe’s poetry has appeared in Water~Stone, Poet Lore, Slipstream, and other literary journals. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Sins & Disciplines and Findley Place; A Street, a Ballpark, a Neighborhood. She has two grown sons and lives with her husband in Roseville, Minnesota.
Amethyst Review 