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.
Pink plastic beads strung round my neck for Mardi Gras,
relic of my girlhood like Tamagotchis & Silly Bandz &—carry this,
it’s Zinfandel, the type of wine my mother used to sip before bedtime,
eyes welling with unshed tears. Three flasks bundled
into a flannel shirt we’ll be late
for the party placed tenderly into my dumbstruck arms.
Go on now into the hallway crackling with silence,
into the gasping night. & I—& I, all gaping wide-eyed wonder—
I’m acting so terribly young tonight.
Still, these are the things about which
I’ll write: dollar-store mascara clumping
like darkened snow, a dim halo dismantling
my upturned face, bare skin brooking no lies—so yes,
maybe I’ll play pretend for just a while
here, in this strange world light years from my own
here, with this boy who swears I’m indestructible.