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
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