ATTACHMENT
some stories tell themselves
like skid marks on
a guardrail
up and over
we’ve gotta talk
can flip a relationship
off another kind of bridge
while good news needs no intro
it can take a lifetime to shake
bad habits, mixed metaphors
hope
and you
paperclipped
to my soul
are the one attachment, like a skiff [on dawn’s slick
horizon] pinned as much by tensile sky as silver sea
to me
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Angela Masterson Jones recently received her Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing with a minor in film studies, high honors, honors program, and the Excellence in Creative Writing Award from Eckerd College. The constituent relations assistant and college editor at her alma mater, she serves as staff adviser and college editor of Eckerd Review and on the advisory board of Spoonbill Cove Press. Her poetry and prose have received numerous awards and have appeared in New Millennium Writings, The Lyric, Eckerd Review, Sabal, Writer’s Digest, St. Petersburg Times, Bacopa, Penumbra, Saw Palm, Sunscripts, and other places. In 2010 her poems received first place in The Lyric College Poetry Contest and the Writers Alliance of Gainesville Poetry Contest, and her winning poem “At the Crossing” appeared in Bennington College’s online literary journal plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing 2010.