The Dead Eat Everything

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

T H E D E A D E A T E V E R Y T H I N G W i c k P o e t r y F i r s t B o o k s e r i e s david hassler, editor The Local World by Mira rosenthal Maggie Anderson, Judge Wet by carolyn creedon edward Hirsch, Judge The Dead Eat Everything by Michael Mlekoday Dorianne Laux, Judge maggie anderson, editor emerita Already the World by Victoria redel Gerald stern, Judge Likely by Lisa coffman Alicia suskin ostriker, Judge Intended Place by rosemary Willey yusef komunyakaa, Judge The Apprentice of Fever by richard tayson Marilyn Hacker, Judge Beyond the Velvet Curtain by karen kovacik Henry taylor, Judge The Gospel of Barbecue by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Lucille clifton, Judge Paper Cathedrals by Morri creech Li-young Lee, Judge Back Through Interruption by kate Northrop Lynn emanuel, Judge The Drowned Girl by eve Alexandra c. k. Williams, Judge Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia by Lee Peterson Jean Valentine, Judge Trying to Speak by Anele rubin Philip Levine, Judge Intaglio by Ariana-sophia M. kartsonis eleanor Wilner, Judge Constituents of Matter by Anna Leahy Alberto rios, Judge Far from Algiers by Djelloul Marbrook toi Derricotte, Judge The Infirmary by edward Micus stephen Dunn, Judge Visible Heavens by Joanna solfrian Naomi shihab Nye, Judge The dead eat everything Poems by Michael Mlekoday The kent state University Press Kent, Ohio © 14 by Michael Mlekoday All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 13341  978-1-6635-189-5 Manufactured in the United States of America The Wick Poetry Series is sponsored by the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mlekoday, Michael, 1985– [Poems. Selections] The Dead Eat Everything : Poems / by Michael Mlekoday. pages cm. — (Wick Poetry First Book Series) ∞ Includes bibliographical references.  978-1-6635-189-5 (paperback) I. Title. PS3613.L36D43 13 811'.6—dc3 13341 18 17 16 15 14 5 4 3  1 for my mother, my father, and Grandma Toni ...