All My Pretty Ones

Published 1962

All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What! all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?...
I cannot but remember such things were,
That were most precious to me.
Macbeth

Part One

All My Pretty Ones

The Truth the Dead Know

Young

Lament

Old Dwarf Heart

The Operation

The Starry Night

To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph

I Remember

Part Two

In the Deep Museum

A Curse Against Elegies

The Abortion

For God While Sleeping

Ghosts

With Mercy for the Greedy

Part Three

The Fortress

Part Four

Old

Woman with Girdle

The Hangman

Water

Housewife

Wallflower

The House

Doors, Doors, Doors

Part Five

The Black Art

Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound

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