“Mother Lode” by Jessica McMillan

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Mother Lode

By Jessica McMillan


Copyright © Jessica McMillan

Previously published in Moist Poetry Journal.

Jessica Lee McMillan (she/her) is a poet and teacher. She has an English MA and creative writing certificate from SFU’s The Writer’s Studio. Read her recent/forthcoming poems in The Malahat Review, Crab Creek Review, QWERTY, CV2 and Canadian Literature. Jessica lives on the land of the Halkomelem-speaking Peoples with her little family and large dog.


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