Tailor Elf

Kay Ryan is the Poet Laureate of the United States, and she has some incredible work to her name. Here's one of my favourite of her poems, called Bad Day:

Not every day
is a good day
for the elfin tailor.
Some days
the stolen cloth
reveals what it
was made for:
a handsome weskit
or the jerkin
of an elfin sailor.
Other days
the tailor
sees a jacket
in his mind
and sets about
to find the fabric.
But some days
neither the idea
nor the material
presents itself;
and these are
the hard days
for the tailor elf.


We've all been there, tailor elf.