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Poems About Breakups and Divorce
A Book Of Music
by Jack Spicer
After Love
by Sara Teasdale
Donal Óg
by Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory
Failing and Flying
by Jack Gilbert
Family Reunion
by Jeredith Merrin
from The Aeneid ["So, you traitor"]
by Virgil
Heart's Needle
by W. D. Snodgrass
I May After Leaving You Walk Quickly or Even Run
by Matthea Harvey
Man and Wife
by Robert Lowell
One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
Remember
by Christina Rossetti
The Gift
by Sara Teasdale
This Was Once a Love Poem
by Jane Hirshfield
To Earthward
by Robert Frost
When We Two Parted
by George Gordon Byron
Why should a foolish marriage vow
by John Dryden
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The Primer  
by Christina Davis

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.




"The Primer" from Forth A Raven. © 2006 by Christina Davis. Reprinted with the permission of Alice James Books.
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