Today's poem is "Eve's Design" by Moira Linehan, which goes out to all you knitters. Spindle, thread, and yarn have been the tools of myth-making since the first woman twirled a thread on a spindle and figured out what to do with it. I love this little poem -- Eve, knitting a serpent's pattern and quietly reflecting on "what's infinitely possible with a few stitches."
The art is "Peasant Girl Knitting" by Frans Pieter Lodewyk van Kuyck (1852–1915).
And here's another suggestion for National Poetry Month: stop by the Poetry Foundation and check out their terrific collection of poetry videos, some brilliantly animated and others read by poets and celebrities. Favorites are Jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis performing William Butler Yeats' romping poem "The Wild, Wicked Old Man," Sharon Olds reading her poem "I Go Back to May, 1937," a heart-breaking poem about abuse, and an animated version of Robert Creeley's gorgeous love poem "The Language," read by Carl Hancock Rux.
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