Henry James At The Pacific (Donald Justice Poems)
-- Coronado Beach, California, March, 1905 In a hotel room by the sea, the Master Sits brooding on the continent ...
Donald Justice Poems (54 Poems)
To A Ten-Months’ Child (Donald Justice Poems)
Late arrival, noOne would think of blaming youFor hesitating so.Who, setting his hand to knockAt a door so strange as ...
A Birthday Candle (Donald Justice Poems)
Thirty today, I sawThe trees flare briefly likeThe candles on a cake,As the sun went down the sky,A momentary flash,Yet ...
Men at Forty (Donald Justice Poems)
Men at fortyLearn to close softlyThe doors to rooms they will not beComing back to(Donald Justice)
The Tourist From Syracuse (Donald Justice Poem)
One of those men who can be a car salesman or a tourist from Syracuse or a hired assassin. -- ...
To A Ten-Months’ Child (Donald Justice Poems)
Late arrival, no One would think of blaming you For hesitating so. Who, setting his hand to knock At a ...
Sestina: Here In Katmandu (Donald Justice Poem)
We have climbed the mountain. There's nothing more to do. It is terrible to come down To the valley Where, ...
Men At Thirty (Donald Justice Poem)
Thirty today, I saw The trees flare briefly like The candles upon a cake As the sun went down the ...
In Bertram’s Garden (Donald Justice Poems)
Jane looks down at her organdy skirt As if it somehow were the thing disgraced, For being there, on the ...
The Evening Of The Mind (Donald Justice Poem)
Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood; Here is the shadow moving ...
Villanelle At Sundown (Donald Justice Poem)
Turn your head. Look. The light is turning yellow. The river seems enriched thereby, not to say deepened. Why this ...
Love’s Strategems (Donald Justice Poems)
But these maneuverings to avoid The touching of hands, These shifts to keep the eyes employed On objects more or ...
A Map Of Love (Donald Justice Poem)
Your face more than others' faces Maps the half-remembered places I have come to I while I slept- Continents a ...
Ode To A Dressmaker’s Dummy (Donald Justice Poems)
Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. -- Sears, Roebuck Catalogue O my coy darling, still You ...
The Assassination (Donald Justice Poem)
It begins again, the nocturnal pulse. It courses through the cables laid for it. It mounts to the chandeliers and ...
Sadness (Donald Justice Poem)
1 Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents, Why were you so sad on porches, whispering? What great melancholies ...
A Birthday Candle (Donald Justice Poem)
Thirty today, I saw The trees flare briefly like The candles on a cake, As the sun went down the ...
Men At Forty (Donald Justice Poem)
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. At rest ...
On The Death Of Friends In Childhood (Donald Justice Poem)
We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven Nor sunning themselves among the bald of hell; If anywhere, in ...
Anonymous Drawing (Donald Justice Poem)
A delicate young Negro stands With the reins of a horse clutched loosely in his hands; So delicate, indeed, that ...
Poem (Donald Justice Poem)
This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, ...
Pantoum Of The Great Depression (Donald Justice Poem)
Our lives avoided tragedy Simply by going on and on, Without end and with little apparent meaning. Oh, there were ...
Bus Stop (Donald Justice Poem)
Lights are burning In quiet rooms Where lives go on Resembling ours. The quiet lives That follow us- These lives ...
Absences (Donald Justice Poem)
It's snowing this afternoon and there are no flowers. There is only this sound of falling, quiet and remote, Like ...