Yael Hacohen

THE FLOCK

–after Denise Levertov

All night I watched the bombs fly through the dark sky

like formations of red-beaked egrets, missing my window over & over again

desperate, their war cry

sounded more

or less.

Exploding from sky to sky, their wings clipped frantically at the edges

of embers.

Till they finally gave up, battered, wounded, fragments of feathers

fell like commas to the ground.

How cruel the night must look in our guilty eyes.

Yael Hacohen is a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. She has held a research/teaching fellowship from Tel-Aviv University and Bar Ilan University. She has an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where she was an ?NYU Veterans Workshop Fellow, International Editor at Washington Square Literary ?Review, and Editor-in-Chief at Nine Lines Literary Review. Her work has been featured in Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Consequence ?Literary Review, Comstock Review, and many many more. ?Hacohen published "Between Sanctity and Sand" with Finishing Line Press in 2021.

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