Robert Earl Hayden

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    “the bud packed
    tight with its miracle swayed
    stiffly on breaths
    of air, moved

    as though impelled
    by stirrings within itself.”
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    “I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.”
    —William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)

    “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)