Flood and Ebb
FROM THE ONLINE CHAPBOOK FLAMINGO PARK
Flood and Ebb
Miriam Levine
Let me imagine we will be here in the fall,
the wind blowing down from the north.
The sudden blank-out of a name will startle us,
our dead finding new things to say.
Praise will not turn our heads.
Regret will flood us and ebb.
We’ll stop rereading our past
and forget what we meant to do.
Flamingo Park
Miriam Levine
2026
Flamingo Park is Miriam Levine’s gift to you. The setting of this online chapbook is the Flamingo Park neighborhood of Miami Beach, Florida. The themes, for the most part, are love, death, joy—laughter and tears—the longstanding themes of lyric poetry.