Indiana Review Online 2018: An Undergraduate Project
Birth, Blood, Breed
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IR ONLINE: Birth, Blood, Breed
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.
IR ONLINE POETRY: “23andme” by Ananya Kumar-Banerjee
Justification for attempts to conjoin body to separate cultures, a means to convey my particular pathetic intention.
Broadly. This is what the report says of me. It says my maternal ancestor came from East Africa, as we all do, over 180,000 years ago. She lay herself at the feet of the Indus River and made her way to that region called home.
Conjecture. <0.1%, a small speck on the edge of the diagram, East Asia. Attributing culture to an inherent physicality, an invented way to subvert nurture. Or improper, inappropriate nurturing: sitting on the countertop with my mother yi qi bao jiao zi, sweet soft summer sounds of Sade and the Supremes spilling in the smoke.
Lineage, walking backward. This is the reverse. February, the taste of nian gao sticky on my lips, hot plates boiling water for tang yuan. The strands are fine.
