Robert Earl Hayden

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    “Luna presence,
    foredoomed, already dying,
    it charged the room
    with plangency

    older than human
    cries,”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    “The blood of Abraham, God’s father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God—an anguished cry for peace.”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    “My head gripped in bony vise
    of knees, the writhing struggle
    to wrench free, the blows, the fear
    worse than blows that hateful

    Words could bring, the face that I
    no longer knew or loved. . . .”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)