The Dead Eat Everything

Contents

c o n t e n t s Foreword by dorianne Laux vii iii. self-Portrait with gunshot vernacular 3 dictator, by Which i Mean the Mother Brandishing a Pistol with a Piñata over her head 4 in Minneapolis, My Father 5 self-Portrait, Wearing Bear skull as Mask 7 First Plague 8 self-Portrait, July 1 The novelty doorbell turns Prehistoric 11 Forage 1 home remedies 14 self-Portrait, downtown 15 Baba sits you on the kitchen table and teaches you all the old-school curses 16 self-Portrait with Pollination 18 going north 19 genealogy  self-Portrait, Fat tuesday  departure, the Path Back Puddled over and darkened 3 don’t ask Why i stopped Believing in Magic 4 iii. self-Portrait with Blight 9 iii. Playing dead Means different Things to different People 39 self-Portrait from the other side 4 Flood 41 self-Portrait with Power outage 4 self-Portrait with Big city religion 43 to vanish, cover your eyes and count 44 The Motherland 46 self-Portrait Wherein everything Whirrs with the spirit 49 self-Portrait, after drive-By 5 vi Bobby hasn’t eaten in Three days 51 cartilage, cartilage 5 elegy on old-school drum Machine 53 Thaumaturgy 54 drop 55 Maker 56 self-Portrait, kneeling 58 acknowledgments 61 notes 63 ...