What happens to a dead woman's costume jewelry?
Her hair is growing back
but what will happen to the fake plastic
pearls she bought to wear in bed
with a stranger?

He daughters and her debtors
will fight over the diamonds.
But her department store cubic zirconium
will fight for attention
at a neighbors garage sale
while she crosses
her arms-how thin they are-
at old pictures
and thinks about the fate
of everything and the fate
of her brass bracelets
as they clank together
-how big they are-
how careless their sound.