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| Searching... Author: TERRANOVA, ELAINE Matches Found: 38 Terranova, Elaine Poet's Biography 38 poems available by this author 1939 Poem Text First Line: A woman takes a small girl's hand Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Shoah; Judaism BED AND BREAKFAST Poem Text First Line: We drive on, hoping for fair weather Last Line: With its steady thread of flame Subject(s): Travel; Hotels BETROTHAL AT THE WALL Poem Text First Line: At a well, a maiden (na'arah) Subject(s): Courtship BLACK NARCISSUS, THE MOVIE First Line: The shadow of the bell Last Line: On squat gray donkeys. Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema BLIND MAN Poem Text First Line: He will not see those first golden notches Last Line: Those trembling eclipses of light Subject(s): Blindness BREAKING COVER Poem Text First Line: I grew up in the church. I learned Last Line: Like a coffin bearng a flag Subject(s): Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Peace Movements CHORAL SONG Poem Text First Line: Soon greek oars will whip up Subject(s): Politics & Government; War DEATH CAME AT ME Poem Text First Line: On a motorcycle Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FERAL GIRL FOUND IN A SUBURBAN HOUSE Poem Text First Line: We know her by her two perfect Last Line: A hiss that gives nothing away Subject(s): Girls FLOATER Poem Text First Line: I had to push myself Last Line: Kept it dark and no one came Subject(s): Alienation (Social Psychology) FOR ONE WHO CAME LATE TO POETRY First Line: Not someone I knew well, not close Last Line: Everything a grown woman wants. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets GOODWIFE PLAYING THE VIRGINALS; AFTER A PAINTING BY DE WITTE First Line: The woman's hands are hungry birds Last Line: The man is trapped by the open door. Subject(s): Housewives; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HUMMINGBIRD Poem Text First Line: What with foresight and dancing, Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Death; Dead, The IN THE BINDERY Poem Text First Line: The shift begins. Metal clanks Last Line: A change of heart but then goes on. Subject(s): Factories; Industrial Workers Of The World (I.w.w.); Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Work; Workers LATERNA MAGICA First Line: What you remember Last Line: That rise like faces out of smoke. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Hospitals; Miracles LILA'S WORD, HER VIGIL Poem Text First Line: There are no windows Last Line: Like great chords of music Subject(s): Homeless Shelters MIMOSA First Line: It must have been july Last Line: He'd have heard my heart beating. Subject(s): Birthdays; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People MINT Poem Text First Line: Already, we’d be driving past Last Line: The chance of a reprieve Subject(s): Forests; Man-woman Relationships NEAR NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The lights of earth came out like stars Last Line: Each make a plea in the dark Subject(s): Night NEEDLEWORK Poem Text First Line: Sometimes fate takes Last Line: In the butterfly's orange wings. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Convents; Needles; Nuns; Seamstresses NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS Poem Text First Line: I pushed away a nearly Last Line: Throbbing, in the present Subject(s): Plants OFFICES First Line: I think of days / with numbers hung on them Last Line: At the holiday party? Subject(s): Office Employees; Office Work; Clerks PHOBIA First Line: Because from the tour bus Last Line: With its frantic wings. Subject(s): Fear; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RETURN TO WINTER Poem Text First Line: That day the starlings didn't eat. Subject(s): Winter RIVER BATHERS Poem Text First Line: This was no paradise Last Line: The grass and rusting iron furniture. Subject(s): Rivers; Seashore; Water; Beach; Coast; Shore RUSH HOUR Poem Text First Line: Odd, the baby's scabbed face peeking over Last Line: Its motion that would begin like a blessing. Subject(s): Commuters; Travel; Journeys; Trips SELF-EXAMINATION First Line: He might be tethered Last Line: To do with us? – madly flashing in the light. Subject(s): Beauty; Cancer, Breast; Radiology; Regret SHELLS Poem Text First Line: In the heat, in the high grass Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER; FOR JIM DRAKE First Line: As a young man he ran. He knew Last Line: He can never run out of film. Subject(s): Photography & Photographers ST. KEVIN AND THE WOMAN OF DERRYBAWN First Line: At night her soul is alive Last Line: In the world, she lets them fall. Subject(s): Hunger; Prostitution; Survival; Women - Abused; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Wife Beating STAIRWAY Poem Text First Line: Think of the dollhouse Last Line: The nearly perfect moon Subject(s): Dollhouses STRAWBERRY FETE First Line: At the hospital grounds that night Last Line: And the perfect strawberries. Subject(s): Fruit; Hunger; Strawberries TABLEAUX VIVANTS; NAPLES, 1790 First Line: Emma hart looks out into the glare Last Line: They must prepare for an era of disaster. Subject(s): Hamilton, Lady Emma (1765-1815); Nelson, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805); Revolutions THE ANNIVERSARY Poem Text First Line: That night / the comet could still be seen Subject(s): Anniversaries THE RUIN Poem Text First Line: Is the ruin ashell or a skeleton? Last Line: They meant to tell us Subject(s): Ruins THE YOUNG SUICIDES IN IRELAND First Line: The sky is lined Last Line: Ticking, tipping them forward. Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Suicide; Youth THIEF Poem Text First Line: It is daylight still Last Line: Or whoever lives here Subject(s): Robbery WHY YOUR FATHER CRIED First Line: Your sister is telling the story. It was Last Line: "some of the best thoughts I had in my life." Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood |
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