Thirty today, I saw
The trees flare briefly like
The candles on a cake,
As the sun went down the sky,
A momentary flash,
Yet there was time to wish

(C) Donald Justice
03/15/2017


Best Poems of Donald Justice

• Pantoum Of The Great Depression
• American Sketches
• Anonymous Drawing
• Banjo Dog Variations
• A Birthday Candle
• Absences
• The Assassination
• Women In Love
• Extraits
• Villanelle At Sundown
• Bus Stop
• Sadness
• Henry James At The Pacific
• A Map Of Love
• Men At Forty
• Sestina: Here In Katmandu
• Hell
• Men At Thirty