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The helicopters, speedy birds of pain,
Once more thunder over my head;
I sit at my quaking desk bent
Over my notebook, holding my trembling pen.
They seem to know, to sense my inner
Homing beacon: again they flock together,
Circling above my aging heart, in which even
Now chambers and empty spaces make room:
Like containers packed tight with pain.
Elisha Porat, the 1996 winner of Israel's Prime Minister's Prize for Literature, has published nineteen volumes of fiction and poetry, in Hebrew, since 1973. His works have appeared in translation in Israel, the United States, Canada, and England. The English translation of his short story collection The Messiah of LaGuardia was released in 1997. His latest collection of Hebrew poetry, The Dinosaurs of the Language, was published in Israel. His latest book in English, Payback, stories, was recently published by Wind River Press.
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