The Women Who Anoint Themselves
What happens when a woman becomes her own medicine? In this moving prose poem, Selahmon Jones reflects on survival, solitude, sacred resilience, and the quiet longing to be held after years of holding everyone else.
WHEN SUMMER COMES by Dora Sigerson Shorter
In When Summer Comes, Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter explores the haunting side of Midsummer. Through memory, longing, and the return of a lost love's presence, the poem reveals how the season of light can also awaken the ghosts of the heart.
The Eye That Refused the Dark: A Story of Love, Loss, and Inner Sight by Selahmon Jones
Selahmon, a regular contributor to Bruja Magazine, delivers a deeply personal and poetic reflection on love, vision, and self recognition. In “The Eye That Refused the Dark,” she explores the tension between longing and discernment, tracing the journey from illusion to clarity in both relationships and self. This piece speaks to the courage required to choose aligned love, even when it means walking away from what once felt like home.
“The Daughter Who Grew Through Stone” by Selahmon Jones
Selahmon, a regular contributor to Bruja Magazine, offers a poetic meditation on resilience, generational patterns, and the quiet force of becoming. In “The Daughter Who Grew Through Stone,” she explores how identity can expand beyond the limitations of upbringing, even when rooted in silence or survival. This piece reflects on growth as an instinctual, almost ancient process, one that continues to unfold despite resistance, expectation, or constraint.
“What Survives After the Funeral” by Selahmon Jones
A poetic exploration of grief after losing a parent, and how loss reshapes the body, memory, and emotional survival across generations by Selahmon Jones
“Daughter of the Unseen Fire”
“Daughter of the Unseen Fire” is a visceral meditation on becoming. Selahmon Jones traces the quiet violence of being unseen within the paternal gaze, where silence becomes inheritance and recognition is withheld like breath. Through stark, elemental language, the poem moves from girlhood shaped by absence into a womanhood forged by self-recognition.
