A house, they say, has
Jewelry: study its doorknobs, its hinges.

Get out of the way, says Death—you are wasting
My time!

There is a joke men like to tell.
What is the difference between
A woman and a lady?
Jewelry.

Wear originals, not copies.
Though if you do not understand
The difference, wear none.

Rebecca Pyle’s poetry, short stories, and oil paintings appear lately in The Bangalore Review, New England Review, Wisconsin Review, Map Literary; The Remembered Arts Journal, Requited Journal, Taj Mahal Review, Poor Yorick, and Underwater New York.

In Salt Lake City, Utah, Rebecca Pyle lives in an old gray brick house between the Great Salt Lake and the gorgeous old mountain mining town Sundance film festival takes place in each January. She has lived also in Alaska, New York City, Kansas, and London. She attended the university the Wizard of Oz is always in love with. Her art website—she is an oil painter—is rebeccapyleartist.com.