Éireann Lorsung is a writer based in Nottingham, UK. Her first book, Music for Landing Planes By, was published by Milkweed Editions; recent poems appear in konundrum engine literary review and Cerise Press. You can find out more at her website, ohbara.com.
After four years in England, I know that summer is not the season of budding trees, shy morning sunlight, blue skies, and merry picnics on the grass that my Midwestern…