Rita Moe

Exposure

Tucked into the corner of a long wooden bench, I take off my coat and spread it beside me as a tablet. Words spill from my pen. Looping cursive lines spread down the sleeves and across the bodice; dozens of rows of script edge the hemline. My mother says, “Foolish girl. How will we escape the Nazis with your words in plain sight?”

    stark winter tree tops
read the secrets of sparrows
    written on the sky

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About the Author

Rita Moe is a poet, a knitter, a gardener. Her poetry has been published in Water~Stone, Amethyst Review, Mad Swirl, and other literary journals.  She recently—and happily—learned of the haibun form and is pleased her first published haibun is in this issue of cho.  She lives with her husband in Roseville, Minnesota.

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