ANTJE KATCHER
Poetry
Published: 2015
Pages: 81
ISBN 978-1-4951-6174-2
THE BRAVE LITTLE TAILOR
according to Grimm
Greetings,
said the Unicorn to the Tailor,
greetings on this fine day
But, said the Tailor,
don’t you know there is no
such thing as a unicorn
Oh I am, she cried,
don’t you see that I am
Fair as the morning air
Bright as the morning light
Soft as the mourning dove
Fleeting as morning love…
The Tailor alas
saw no future in poetry
so he chopped off her ivory rod
rode her home for his hobby horse
and married his ugly
but very rich princess
Unicorns since that day
travel in disguise
from Catechism