The Orchard Thieves
By Jai Bashir
“In the rain, we circle around like dogs / who can’t find sleep, we carve the dark // out of plums, purple as an uncurled thumb”
Jai Bashir
Jai Hamid Bashir is a Pakistani-American poet and ecologist from Salt Lake City, Utah. A graduate of the University of Utah’s Environmental Humanities program, she is currently pursuing an MFA at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her work has appeared through Asian American Writer’s Workshop, The Academy of American Poets, Sierra Magazine and others.