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 like how precious looks like precocious
and I look blonde and glowy like a sickness.
Or the bowl of apricots tumbled across
the hardwood. My mother tells me as we stack
back the fruits, to be a good wife I need to start
with the Oxy early.
She tells me if I turn out to be a cheater, never
admit it. Holds the mirror as I trace perfumed oil
around my collarbone and says
Roll a little softer.