Christina Davis
Christina Davis is the author of two collections of poetry: An Ethic (Nightboat Books, 2013) and Forth A Raven (Alice James Books, 2006). She currently serves as curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Source
The Primer
She said, I love you.
He said, Nothing.
(As if there were just one
of each word and the one
who used it, used it up).
In the history of language
the first obscenity was silence.
Published:
2006
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2024
Themes:
Love & Relationships
Memory & The Past
Literary Devices:
Caesura
a break between words within a metrical foot
Dialogue
conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
Enjambment
a line break interrupting the middle of a phrase which continues on to the next line