Sherdil Awais Rashid
Sherdil is an undergraduate at LUMS. His writing has been published by Kitab Ghar and Olomopolo, and has appeared in The Lickety Split. He has also contributed to Jashn, an anthology of poetry from young poets across Pakistan. He is someone who lives in, moves with, and writes about desire as a twenty something in Lahore.
Poetry (translation)
In the name of one of Lahore’s snack bars
Come, that we may
our eyes
veil, with the hands of false comforts
This is where I read ‘Lahore Ki Aik Snack Bar’ from, this picture of want and wanting as tense, unsure, visceral. Half-dark.