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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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If you couldn’t fly
what would be the effort of looking up,
but for that subtle longing
a bird gets
when it dips its beak into the sea,
reminded of the forces of others,
of tides,
of the waves,
object
permanence,
reemerging with something chewy
and sweet
in that bird kind of way,
and carried back to the wind
to the possibilities of dreaming safely
in the hands of the unreachable.
Look up,
look down,
its’s all the same –
a swipe of the heart,
and a return home