Elaine Olund is a writer, designer, and movement teacher based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Conditions in the Midwest, injustices, birds, climate change, and the meaning of love are abiding obsessions. Her first chapbook, The Invisible Suitcase, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020. Her poetry, essays, and fiction have appeared in Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment (Sweet Corn winner in 2019 for poetry), Peregrine, Stonecrop Magazine, The Ocotillo Review, Dunes Review, and others.
Manatee Bay heated like a kettle, while I watered wilting zinnias, yearned to turn back the tick-tock climate clock, only hope won’t deliver the cool I long for firefly nights thrum, oh— what a moon, silvering bluegrass. I shinnied up the Ash tree and afterward, had endless, steamy-mirror-crying showers. I smell the campfire sluicing off tangles, am still tasting grape… Read more →