Thank you, Editor Ferris Jones of Inquisition Poetry for publishing "Mother Mine."

https://www.inquisitionpoetry.com/poems-by-ferris-e-jones




Mother Mine How is it we labor to provide ourselves with beautiful gems, when in order to get them, we must still the pulse of our mother? We dig, ignoring the screams and vapors from her lungs, only to let her fall silent and ever remain so. Abandoned mines offer no memorials posted for the sacrifice of that great heart.