Poems by Donald Justice
Sestina: Here In Katmandu
... In the valley. One caught their scent coming down ...
Men At Thirty
... Yet there was time to wishBefore the break light could die ...
In Bertram's Garden
... For being there, on the floor, in the dirt, ...
The Evening Of The Mind
... Now the dwarf peach trees, nailed to their trellises, ...
The Tourist From Syracuse
... One of those men who can be a car salesman or a tourist from Syracuse or a ...
On A Painting By Patient B Of The Independence State Hospital For The Insane
... And the little maids that hang from the windows like tongues, ...
Henry James At The Pacific
... Is just the mild, dear light of Lamb House falling ...
American Sketches
... Sons asleep In their work clothes ...
Care for Thy Soul as Thing of Greatest Price
... Care keep thee not from heaven and heavenly bliss ...
Banjo Dog Variations
... 4 Train had just slowed for the crossing when ...
In Memory Of The Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn
... have a beautiful world with which to deal: it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness ...
Counting The Mad
... This one saw things that were not there, ...
Women In Love
... Their choice of hells would be the one they know ...
Extraits
... dour vision of life's journey: from "Sestina on Six Words by Weldon Kees" ...
Hell
... When I was very young I thought that love would come ...
