Angela Masterson
Jones, Advisory Board Member
Angela
Masterson Jones is
the publisher of Double Ray Press. Her prize-winning poetry and prose
have filled the pages of literary journals, newspapers and magazines
such as Writer’s Digest, American Poetry Anthology,
St. Petersburg Times, Penumbra,
Sunscripts, Literary Liftoff and others.
She can be
reached by e-mail at
doublerayediting@aol.com.
Angela
with Kevin Bacon and his
brother Michael.
Her prize-winning essay "Two Degrees of Kevin
Bacon"
appeared in Wordsmith.
AWAKENINGS
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Angela Masterson Jones
You sprang from
your nap on the floor
when I kissed you, in your thin ribbed
undershirt with armholes bigger than my head.
Supper,
Mom had said.
Go wake your dad.
I didn’t know I’d
find you
on hills of high grass,
rifle slung over khaki shoulder,
swinging to the beat of dry-socked,
booted feet, following a cadence
called by countrymen
in a foreign land.
Korea was not a
place I’d met,
at seven, because I hadn’t yet seen
how it made you lunge,
alarm camouflaged in sleep
by twitching eyelids, ticking cheeks.
I got my first
taste of war in that kiss,
my baby tooth’s loose root
knocked free
by the strong
bone of your chin
that quivered at supper when I couldn’t eat
because of all our blood
on my lips.
© 2000 Angela
Masterson Jones
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