Jai Bashir
Jai Bashir

Jai Hamid Bashir is a Pakistani-American and second-generation artist. She is an MFA candidate at Columbia University where she was awarded the Linda Corrente Poetry Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Palette Poetry, The Margins | Asian American Writer's Workshop, Sierra Magazine, Poets.org, and others.

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IN BRAVE SLOWNESS OF LIFE

A skeleton swings— from a tree like laundry on fishing line, false horizon so invisible, it can only belong to phantoms. I’ve held out for the dead each year to become less dead. What axis would the earth have if love was an unkillable art? I’ve never wanted fortune or its friends. Just time to […]

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