Sunrise – a poem by Rita Moe

Sunrise


Grainstack, Sun in the Mist, 1891
                               Claude Monet

“Only Monet could make a cathedral out of a grainstack.” 
—Bruce Dayton

Dazzled at being chosen,
each bead of dew
flashes fire,
dances into vapor, 
and ascends.  

Rita Moe is a poet, knitter, & gardener.  She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: Sins & Disciplines and Findley Place; A Street, a Ballpark, a Neighborhood.  Now retired from a Minneapolis investment firm, she is the mother of two grown sons and lives with her husband in Roseville, MN.