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MIGRATING BIRDS

by Elisha Porat
for Shaul, my son.

Above the Stella Maris lighthouse
two hundred pelicans in flight.
The air is heavy today, and their flapping sluggish
across the graying sea,
above the green mountain cliffs.
Like an arrowhead pitched north
they join head to tail
forging a blocked secure formation.
All at once their line breaks
their feathers scatter
from the threat of the spinning chopper
descending toward roofs,
urgently, despairingly, seeking
the center of the bright square:
the landing tract of "Ramba`m Hospital" on sea.

Translated from the Hebrew by Tsipi Keler.
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Elisha Porat is an Israeli writer whose work has long appeared in Ariga.
See: Shell Shock by Elisha Porat
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Shell Shock by Elisha Porat
Jewish Thought by Elisha Porat
A Hike in the Galilee by Elisha Porat
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A Small Poetry Workshop - Three translations of the same poem By Elisha Porat
PURIFICATION by Elisha Porat
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