Fatima Jafar Fatima Jafar is a Pakistani poet living in Boston, where she is an MFA Poetry candidate at Emerson College. Her work has appeared in Nimrod, The Pinch, Banshee Press, The Roadrunner Review, and more.

Coin | Poetry

Fatima Jafar

To speak of this would be to try and say something of a cave, a letterless mouth. The moon floats like a coin in black water. The candle on the table is dead. A mouth hangs forlorn like a well. A year hangs forlorn like a well. Still, a glint in the dark — a fish’s tail. Silver whisper, silver whisper. God is closer to me than my jugular vein....