{"id":1134,"date":"2018-01-03T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2021-08-04T19:18:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:18:05","slug":"would-have-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/2018\/01\/03\/would-have-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Would Have Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course I’ll have the birthday cake, observe
\nIts boundaries, that the world is round, and the ovum.
\nOf course I’ll take a place at the uncomfortable table,
\nImagine the slice of cake is my portion of island
\nAnd no mortgages anymore are paid, the sun is
\nFree, and my Frederik Pohl (with Theodore Sturgeon. Long may
\nThey live again—-Fred and Ted)<\/em> have finished designing his, their<\/em>
\nHouse for me there so I may have my indoor waterfall and indoor
\nChanging place bathed by five directions of sunlight too.
\nNo, books cannot be written there—-this a house for play
\nAnd moonlight arguments, you who would ride a horse on the strand—
\nBut I know better, someone young and beautiful is there
\nWho’d serve the cake when I am gone? Someone
\nSo beautiful and thinly desirous every piece of fabric could be wrapped
\nAround her in sash.<\/p>\n

So—–the young men come wearing boots of
\nBurgundy for no reason other than old women prefer this
\nColor, meaning old women are bound to be less suspicious of
\nHis presence around the young woman dark-haired beautiful, if his
\nBoots are burgundy, if all cakes are delicious even if kept
\nIn freezers, if the volume I needed Georgia O’Keefe’s assistant
\nTo write about me has never been written, nor will be–<\/p>\n

I lived too small, fiddling with bright boats, with pretend, when
\nReal ones—not du Maurier’s—-
\nWould have done.<\/p>\n

Daughter and wife of journalists, Rebecca Pyle<\/strong> was named for a character and a novel and a film (Rebecca<\/em>, by Daphne du Maurier; film by Hitchcock). She graduated from the University of Kansas the Wizard of Oz came from and adored, taking three first prizes in writing, the Carruth, the Whitcomb, and the Wolfe\u2014with her. She is still looking for the shoes. Rebecca lives in Utah, near the Great Salt Lake, and has been published lately as an author or artist (or both) in journals such as Underwater New York, Wisconsin Review, New England Review, Indian Review, Taj Mahal Review, The Bangalore Review, <\/em>and The Remembered Arts Journal.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Her art website: rebeccapyleartist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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