Interlude

 

FROM THE ONLINE CHAPBOOK THE JOHN AND MIM POEMS

Interlude

Miriam Levine

This odd November day

when the air is warm as June,

his hand on mine, warmer still,

“I love this interlude with you,”

away from the world.” He

wants another year, winter,

spring, summer, fall. Summer,

when he can linger

in the porch chair,

in the bower he’s planted,

and read in unbroken leisure

In Search of Lost Time 

and wonder at the long lyrical

sentences and rebirth of pleasure.

Cover of The John and Mim Poems by Miriam Levine, featuring a man and woman smiling at each other against a bright red and orange background.

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.

 
 
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