After Our Elopement
FROM THE ONLINE CHAPBOOK THE JOHN AND MIM POEMS
After Our Elopement
Miriam Levine
The statue mossy with verdigris,
icy wind off the Charles
buffeting the frill of my hat,
tight buds of magnolias
on Marlborough Street
with their unborn blossoms.
I remember shivering, drawing in,
the slippery chill
of the lining of my pink suit,
our nervous laughter,
your warm hand
and the fine black hair
on the back of your wrist.
But what had I done to my
dear lonely life? Fear
altered the space
in my chest, intimation
of love’s cross that would become
too heavy to lift.
The John and Mim Poems
Miriam Levine
2026
The John and Mim Poems is a portrait of a marriage and Miriam Levine’s gift to you.