Indiana Review Online 2018: An Undergraduate Project
Birth, Blood, Breed
To read the introduction to the issue and view the masthead, click here.
To read the introduction to the issue and view the masthead, click here.
IR Online is an international undergraduate literary journal produced by the Literary Editing and Publishing class at Indiana University, Bloomington. Issue 3 was planned and compiled by Emily Corwin’s class in Spring, 2018.
I practice in the mirror—
fish-hook each corner of my mouth
with a nervous index finger and pull.
I practice my breathing,
brush the scale enamel off my teeth,
open my mouth wide like
the surgeon will do with his rod and reel hands.
they knew I was taking/which is to say they posed for me:/both with their bottom teeth jutting/out over their chins/like a 1966 Ford Thunderbird/taking off of a precipice/
papaw’s hand is over mamaw’s shoulder/his knuckles are/knotted by arthritis/(which he calls Arthur/who he calls a friend)/and the rest of his hands are roughened/from a childhood of setting, stripping, and hanging tobacco