THE COMPLETE LIST OF EVERYTHING ( An Excerpt ) Plow blade excavated from a tomb Roof of camphor and cypress Longbow of lacquered catalpa wood The error considered a source of lively regret A folded length of willow-green silk The moon hidden perhaps Four rough ink sketches of cicadas The error considered a serious lapse of taste Hailstorm over open sea Perspective box with Dutch interior The continuum of a pantoum The tyranny of the present tense Empty space filled with conjecture Four angels holding the winds at bay Whirlpool in a tsnuami''s wake Carved bone buttons wax-dipped rose The red end of the spectrum The spotted hood of a pitcher plant Whitetail hung from a barn''s crossbeam Tick-tock of blood into a galvanized pail Nanny goat atop a steaming dung heap A golden age when Saturn ruled The error unacknowledged as error This and this and this and this and this Thicket of rusted razor wire Lightning strike interred as glass in sand Confluence of the Fox and the Wabash Dead man resuscitated by a single word Healer with a birdcage for a head Fragments of a much larger thing Vipers awake this late in the season Sooty smoke of a kerosene lantern No Trespassing sign riddled with buckshot Cold stove of a peat bog The least dangerous of reported side effects Rhyme of allure and terror Jesus in the house of Mary and Martha Fog a fugue of interlocking grays A nail clipping''s sharp ends Antebellum antecedent antediluvian Antelope antemortem antenna Antepenultimate anthem anther anthill Solidarity undermined by rumor Charlie Parker''s grave in Kansas City Verb meaning to look back from the seventh day Noun meaning a discrete body of work "The Great Speckled Bird" sung by Lucinda Williams Contradictions common in dreams Fragment of an Egyptian queen''s face in yellow jasper Abandoned crutches at Chimayo King Lear Act 4 scene 7 lines 43--46 Redacted version of the torture report Vague sense of having been here before The error that unfolds into good fortune The cellar stairs submerged in flood Goat-footed Pan tapping a tree for honey Rhyme of recur and endure Below where bodies writhe as flames Last dregs of a turned and livery port A poor and jerry-built rebuttal Smeared stain of a loose saffron thread Ice-heaved tumble of stonewall Soul awaiting its body''s arrival Shreds debris tailings shrapnel Onslaught of grief without apparent occasion Fall of acorns on a shed''s tin roof Spilt cauldron of a hornet''s nest Hyphen that links and keeps separate Threshold uncrossed by Eurydice "The Great Speckled Bird" sung by Roy Acuff Spanish moss''s ghostly web-work OK meaning be that as it may Pinyon pines wild olives chiffchaffs goldfinches Inarticulate cries and gestures The past like a struck string shimmers anew Screen door caught before it slams Gleaned windfall all pocked and blemished A thermometer''s acrid trace of alcohol A string of fine purple wool to bind bay leaves Trance utterance ecstatic murmur glossolalia Green shoot from a withered tree Compendiums and bestiaries Commentaries on commentaries on commentaries "Peace in the Valley" sung by Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Peace in the Valley" sung by Clara Ward and the Clara Ward singers "(There''ll be) Peace in the Valley" sung by Loretta Lynn Thimble cap black morel horsehair mummy-cap Sky''s clear /night''s sea /green of the mountain pool / Cow-cress poor-man''s-pepper shepherd''s purse Aftershocks along the fault line Contingency quintessence Ancient harbor silted in Nod of moored skiffs in the wake Cocklebur imported in bales of wool The five hundred year flood plain Tumor on my mother''s tongue Pretext by which one begins to speak Curative waters in glass vials Falcon mantled over its prey The translucence of the Eternal through and in the Temporal Black tacks kept in an old baby food jar Emery board tweezers eyelash curler Owl of Minerva nostalgia for the infinite The forgery authenticated Cobra black mamba desert death adder Verb meaning to forget a dream upon waking Bunkers beyond the dunes Arranged order of an encyclopedia Periodic table period piece The quorum the denouement the flimflam Stubborn door-latch sooty ceiling Gate of ivory gate of horn A thread bit not cut all fray and snarl Noun meaning the first to acknowledge a miracle Verb meaning to build up in order to tear down The luck of the draw unfinished business Split infinitives slipped disc Inventory of the summer''s yield The Chester-Hadlyme Ferry A tornado''s lash and drag The error considered tragic Carp and bluegill in a quarry lake Woven wool of a Viking sail Ice-spalled brick face wind-rucked shingles First word that comes to mind First in a series of errors foretold Soluble rock such as limestone dolomite and gypsum Transom knot tumble hitch slippery eight loop The nine rasas the ninth planet Cold fog from which a trawler emerges Slug loose change foreign coins Two iambs followed by a spondee The work and charm of memory Two whole notes a rest An outline darkened in with charcoal Verb meaning recently departed from a place Detour that ends in a dead end. Ram snagged in a thicket Papyrus fragment with lines from Homer''s Odyssey Game of Hounds and Jackals Warm laundry in a wicker basket Match crimped and blackened by flame Spindly taproot of a dream Bottle tree glottal stop gingko leaf The dung beetle the stag-horn Unbleached coarse linen A body''s obedience to gravity Ritual functions of repetition Bed of nails a sarcophagus an arcane song An enclosed interior called a shelter A carton of Camels a cartoon duck Surveyors'' instruments abstracting a field Sconces niches amphorae Levee crested not broken A surface blackened to absorb light Dugout canoe horse trough pothole Deputy Dawg singing Dreadful sorry, Clementine The rafters'' regimented shadows An invitation to the voyage Jabs gouges scars facets A child''s counting game Ruined chapel collapsed circus tent Forthcoming revelations Narrative sustained by and then Ghost pale before a whitewashed wall Edges rounded by wear Incunabula incarnadine incandescence Fertile crescent futile attempt A wheel in a wheel way in the middle of the air The unforgiveable error the error of pride Sporadic killings after a massacre Circular calendar of megaliths A colander''s functional elegance A pair of aces three twos False eyelashes false indigo false start The avant-garde''s puritanical zeal A counterweight an assumed consensus Moment when theory replaces practice An unattended tripe cart near Dante''s house The unintended consequences Mercator projection mercenary mecurochrome This and that but more of that than this Verb meaning to be reminded of a place you never visited A stowaway a splinter a virus Scarp''s erosion wind-riven scarecrow The error of the sentimental A random number generator The pretense of pictorial depth A Madrid morning''s pale silver shimmer Glass pill bottle Duane Allman used as a slide Penknife Blind Willie Johnson used as a slide What de Chirico calls the metaphysics of the most ordinary objects Green door into a courtyard The background the backbeat the backhand Shortwave radio left on all night Child born not from a body but from sleep Dark energy stone light a journey''s tedium Just the cello''s part of a late quartet The name everyone called her Verb meaning to abstract to the edge of recognizability Reverie rather than engagement Shape a dress takes as it falls to the floor Jar of star anise opened The mind as a repository A prairie a pasture edged with oaks A granite erratic half submerged in a wetland What occludes what dims resolution A slur a slub a sluicing Upriver tributaries flint-strike of horse hooves Grapes left on a gleaned vine A discourse on love a distillation What is unknown unknowable The metaphoric dimension of rhyme A banked ember words that baffle Another day older and deeper in debt Uneven floorboards the blue of Mary''s robes Rigid geometries of a rented room A chrome bumper''s severe gleam and glare Buttonwood''s rubbed-of.