{"id":8985,"date":"2025-04-30T23:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8985"},"modified":"2025-04-30T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T05:58:20","slug":"mine-17","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8985","title":{"rendered":"Mine 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Randy Brooks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">boney fingers<br>the miners clock in<br>at dawn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">elevator shaft darkens<br>going down<br>a joker\u2019s light<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">sprig of plum blossoms<br>from his gal<br>a young miner\u2019s cap<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">cloud of coal dust<br>wives and neighbors<br>gather at the gate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">a wide-lens photo<br>of soot-faced miners<br>the survivors\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<hr\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>RANDY BROOKS<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of English Emeritus at Millikin University, where he teaches a haiku course. Randy and Shirley Brooks, are publishers of Brooks Books and co-editors of\u00a0<em>Mayfly<\/em>\u00a0haiku magazine. His most recent books include\u00a0<em>Walking the Fence: Selected Tanka<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Art of Reading and Writing Haiku<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Brooks boney fingersthe miners clock inat dawn elevator shaft darkensgoing downa joker\u2019s light sprig of plum blossomsfrom his gala young miner\u2019s cap cloud of coal dustwives and neighborsgather at the gate a wide-lens photoof soot-faced minersthe survivors\u00a0 &nbsp; RANDY &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8984,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8985","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-2kV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8993,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8985\/revisions\/8993"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}