Nikita Nelin

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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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04/09/20 Perfect Two

April 09, 2020 / Nikita Nelin

We all deserve our heaven

and hell,

I guess –

what am I building?

It’s all,

false starts,

celebrations,

a company of ghosts

for my personal closet,

forget it;

ego,

shame,

a good hearted attempt

at a breakfast sandwich,

and other irregularly sized bits of what I can.

What if the world won’t be

perfect?

I don’t mean the hemlock

of utopia,

the amphetamine thesis of an

academic dream,

but perfect…

like peace

for the moment,

times 1000;

and a knowing in the blood

that it will remain.

What if this is as close

as we ever really come

To touching –

a note in the summer,

longing,

And a postmark in rain.

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