He also wrote and published a large number of love poems for Miriam, including well-known pieces like "23rd Street Runs Into Heaven."
First Patchen took her to meet his parents in Youngstown, Ohio, then they got married on June 28, 1934, in nearby Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Immobilized by the injury, Patchen's sole caretaker was his wife, and since he was bedridden, he wrote and painted poems from his bed with her assistance.
To help make ends meet at this point, Miriam also had to take a job working in retail at a local department store.
[5][6] She was born Miriam Oikemus in Waverley, Belmont, Massachusetts, on September 28, 1914, and died in Palo Alto, California, on March 6, 2000.