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Born in 1925 / Died in August 6, 2004 / United States / English

Poems by Donald Justice

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Poem

... You neither can nor should understand what it means ...

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Pantoum Of The Great Depression

... But it is by blind chance only that we escape tragedy ...

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Bus Stop

... At street corners Or like the lights ...

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Absences

... There is only this sound of falling, quiet and remote, ...

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Sadness

... Toward dusk, Let us say, the river darkens and look bruised, ...

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A Birthday Candle

... As the sun went down the sky, ...

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Men At Forty

... Something is filling them, somethingThat is like the twilight sound ...

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On The Death Of Friends In Childhood

... If anywhere, in the deserted schoolyard at twilight, ...

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Anonymous Drawing

... With a manservant whose opinion is that any alteration at all would spoil it ...

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Villanelle At Sundown

... Our painter friend, Lang, might show the whole thing yellowand not be much off ...

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Love's Strategems

... None of their strategems have succeeded, ...

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A Map Of Love

... Your face more than others' faces ...

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Ode To A Dressmaker's Dummy

... -- Sears, Roebuck CatalogueO my coy darling, still ...

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The Assassination

... And the man in the straw hat stand with it in their shoes ...

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To A Ten-Months' Child

... At a door so strange as this one, ...