Late arrival, no
One would think of blaming you
For hesitating so.

Who, setting his hand to knock
At a door so strange as this one,
Might not draw back?

(C) Donald Justice
04/09/2015


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