Elaine Christensen

ELAINE CHRISTENSEN holds degrees in German and English from Utah State University. She is recipient of the M. Olsen Book Award for At the Edges (Utah State Poetry Society, 1990). She teaches poetry at the Pioneer Craft House in Salt Lake City.

I Have Learned 5 Things

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 4

1. The sulfurous flame
            sunbeams in corners
                        lightning like cracked glass
                                    the bulb of an idea
                                                your dark eyes

1948

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 1

She was learning German that year,
a war bride, living in Darmstadt,
trying to say ich in the back of her throat,
the guttural r of Herr and Frau, to introduce