“New Eyes” Written by Selahmon Risingsun Jones
Can we ever truly see someone again without the weight of yesterday? In New Eyes, Selahmon Risingsun reflects on memory, healing, friendship, and the courageous act of meeting one another as we are today.
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.