April is National Poetry Month — and to celebrate, Bonny, Kat, Sarah, and I are sharing some poetry each Thursday in April. Today . . . is Poem in Your Pocket Day, so we’ll each be sharing a favorite short-and-sweet poem that should fit right into your pocket!

How to Knit a Sweater (a Realist’s Prayer)
by Barbara Kingsolver

O Lord
(whether male, female,
animate, all-knowing,
unreasonable or just
whether or not),
we are practical people
who hedge our bets.
As I hold my loved ones
this day in my thoughts,
meditating on our hopes
and wild adversities,
I also hold a skein 
of good wool,
needles that click like
rosary beads working
through Hail Marys
of knit and purl.
By involving fiber
in my invocation 
of divinity,
I feel assured
of a fairly positive outcome.

Happy National Poetry Month. I hope you’ve enjoyed our month-long celebration of poetry.

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Today’s poem is from How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver, and published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. For more information about today’s poet, click here.

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Then be sure to visit Bonny, Kat, and Sarah to gather more poems for your pockets!