Best Tailoring Poems

A lot of sweat gives us pain.
The forest is likely to rain.
Tropical roundwood hugged in stain.
Fossil hydrocarbon and its contain.
People reject geological abstain.

In small patches, dioramas are aware.
Often, in the remote, we felt the stare.
Small-thicket Cantigi snare.
Small-scale landholders blare.
Gave us a nightmare!...

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Certain yarns with needles knit
Are not strong and likely will split
So please keep in mind
The seamstress is kind
And insists on try-ons for fit...

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Everything’s been said before;
The goal’s to find a way
To tailor those familiar thoughts
To fit beneath your sway.

You choose a pattern and a swatch
Of fabric that appeals,
Then cut and stitch until, at last,
Your feelings it reveals.

Along the way, you change a word
Or rearrange a phrase,
Then try...

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I have stepped
into a shadow.
I am trying it on for size,

taking it in here,
letting it out there,
lifting the hem.

The task complete,
I smooth a crease,
adjust the lamp,

and flick some
leftover darkness
into a corner.


First published in Alba: A Journal of Short Poetry, Issue 35, Winter 2021
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