Meeting
FROM THE ONLINE CHAPBOOK FLAMINGO PARK
Meeting
Miriam Levine
He comes toward me on the empty trail—
shoes orange, socks, too, smoothed to his muscled calves,
afro frizzled with orange at the top,
his skin the color of mahogany but soft, I bet.
O glorious six-feet-plus: at the sight I forget
I’m white. Pleasure heats me to the bone
till I take in his face—fixed, wary, tense.
I lift my small orange scarf like a flag.
And he smiles, leaning toward me.
“The color of the day,” he says.
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.