Robert Earl Hayden

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    Night is juba, night is conjo.
    Pretty Malinda, dance with me.
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    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)