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IR Online: Table of Contents

Indiana Review Online 2018: An Undergraduate Project

Birth, Blood, Breed

To read the introduction to the issue and view the masthead, click here.

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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.

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IR ONLINE POETRY: “Woman as a Forest Fire” by Tennessee Hill

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.

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