We spent the night performing blood transfusions
pumping alcohol into each other’s veins to displace the sadness
Drunk enough to grow, but
not drunk enough ...
Lauren Saxon is an engineering student at Vanderbilt University. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and writes mostly about her experiences with race and identity.Lauren is a reader for Gigantic Sequins and her poetry is forthcoming or featured in Flypaper Magazine, Rhythm & Bones Lit, and Nimrod International Journal.