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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: TERRANOVA, ELAINE Matches Found: 60 Terranova, Elaine Poet's Biography 60 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 1939 First Line: A woman takes a small girl's hand Last Line: Until the river shines. The two walk on %into the clouds, an ample white, %into a sky that has alrea Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews 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 BLIND MAN First Line: He will not see those first golden notches Last Line: Turning their backs ot their shadows, %those trembling eclipses of light 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 CHORAL SONG First Line: Soon greek oars will whip up Last Line: As easily as one plucks a flower?' Subject(s): Politics; War DAY AND NIGHT First Line: The rain would stop, then begin again Last Line: She'd have felt it %under the mattress where they lay DEATH CAME AT ME Poem Text First Line: On a motorcycle Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DINNER AT THE HOLIDAY INN First Line: Not much with me, a jacket and my book 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 FIRST TIME First Line: Last night for the first time Last Line: Shadow falling over %the face of the apple 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 HEAT AND LIGHT: HEAT First Line: The sun at the edge. It falls Last Line: Until I had no past, cast no shadow HEAT AND LIGHT: LIGHT First Line: Don't move. %we'll move you.' a bounce. A child Last Line: Clockwise: the way if it were up to me, %it would go HEAT AND LIGHT: STRUCK First Line: From the start, you find no rest. Traffic Last Line: First of a foot, then leg, the torso HEAT AND LIGHT: THE TREATMENT First Line: The elevator sinks to that half-life Last Line: You would pull back your hand HER STORIES First Line: My mother loved to cry. Oh, how Last Line: Until the end, until I grew up HUMMINGBIRD Poem Text First Line: What with foresight and dancing, Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Death; Dead, The HUNTER'S MOON First Line: The moon was a bull's eye, %so large it dwarfed anything else Last Line: With that liberated smell, hay or manure, %something not yet in the world 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 LATE AFTERNOON First Line: Oh see the gorgeous warring clouds Last Line: And other things I can't name I can't %be held responsible for Subject(s): Relationships; Winter LATERNA MAGICA First Line: What you remember Last Line: That rise like faces out of smoke. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Hospitals; Miracles LESSON First Line: That was edena's mother, %whizzing the mixer, eggs, butter Last Line: Was there, so they meant it to stick LILA'S WORD, HER VIGIL Poem Text First Line: There are no windows Last Line: Like great chords of music Subject(s): Homeless Shelters MERRY-GO-ROUND First Line: Thus I become conscious Last Line: As the fireflies the riders %throw over their shoulders explode 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 MINT First Line: Already, we'd be driving past Last Line: Without making love, without %the chance of a reprieve 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 NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS First Line: I push away a nearly Last Line: Throbbing, in the present NOTO First Line: She is thinking that something must Last Line: The two ends of her voice, reattaching 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 PRINT SKIRT First Line: The zipper is the tricky part Last Line: And tries again, like her mind learning %to worry through a thought or desire Subject(s): Clothing And Dress 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 SECRET MEANINGS First Line: Sometimes our houses shake in the night Last Line: Though the moon, too, is an ardent hunter 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 SKIRT First Line: It wasn't meant to happen. Like a knife Last Line: Like a tree with fire at its heart SMALL HOURS First Line: In the park there's always a crow, startled Last Line: The silver bike handle, ivy flapping in the yard 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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