Poems by Donald Justice
Poem
... You neither can nor should understand what it means ...
Pantoum Of The Great Depression
... But it is by blind chance only that we escape tragedy ...
Bus Stop
... At street corners Or like the lights ...
Absences
... There is only this sound of falling, quiet and remote, ...
Sadness
... Toward dusk, Let us say, the river darkens and look bruised, ...
A Birthday Candle
... As the sun went down the sky, ...
Men At Forty
... Something is filling them, somethingThat is like the twilight sound ...
On The Death Of Friends In Childhood
... If anywhere, in the deserted schoolyard at twilight, ...
Anonymous Drawing
... With a manservant whose opinion is that any alteration at all would spoil it ...
Villanelle At Sundown
... Our painter friend, Lang, might show the whole thing yellowand not be much off ...
Love's Strategems
... None of their strategems have succeeded, ...
A Map Of Love
... Your face more than others' faces ...
Ode To A Dressmaker's Dummy
... -- Sears, Roebuck CatalogueO my coy darling, still ...
The Assassination
... And the man in the straw hat stand with it in their shoes ...
To A Ten-Months' Child
... At a door so strange as this one, ...
