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Nikita Nelin was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to the U.S in 1989. He has lived in Austria and Italy, and has traveled the U.S extensively. He received the Sean O’Faolain prize for short fiction, the Summer Literary Seminars prize for nonfiction, and the Dogwood Literary Prize in Nonfiction, as well as being chosen as a finalist for the Restless Books Immigrant prize and the Dzanc Books prize. His work has been published in print and online. Nikita has conducted research through the Harriman Institute as well as translation through Yale Press, and has written on the convergence between fringe and at-large cultural trends for the Hannah Arendt Center. He holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College, is a 2019 Associate Fellow at The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, and is a member of the Southern Experience Collective.

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04/17/20 The Game

April 17, 2020 / Nikita Nelin

04/17/20 The Game

I keep looking into this blurry screen

waiting for something to save me,

but each flash of the pan is another disaster,

each with their own hypothesis of shame and greed.

Everyone has visions when looking into the fire,

and even a burn is beautiful

if you can stand the pain.

And then there are these little pods blossoming

between the attendants of an old debate;

they curl around the fingertips,

just when my belly is growling,

weave the words of an unpronounceable revolution,

point at something bountiful, and then disappear without leaving a name.

I keep going back to the screen,

thinking there’s a personal message,

A pattern,

but no,

just another

water logged feather,

and a blurry ink stain

from an unwinnable game

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