Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980.
HERE LIES LOVE
Donald Justice
Though books said nothing could save
Love from an early grave
And love from the wear and tear
What flesh and blood was ours for love’s repair
We freely gave.
This way and that we have
Eased love int the grave
And covered all with dirt
And laid the spirit too, though that witch’s heart
Knocking the stave.