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Daroghawala
Shariq Khan


Have you ever seen
A flower
Bloom
On a volcano’s lip?
Have you ever seen
A rose
Blossom
Inside a furnace?
I have—

In hot, sooty Daroghawala,
Where a steel mill breathes fire
Day in and day out

Lives a poet.
Shariq Khan is a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago's South Asian Languages and Civilizations Department. He grew up in Lahore, Pakistan, and completed his undergraduate studies from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

Mark



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