Ploom #074
Dance of the Midges
Nikita Parik
Lying skywards on a wooded bench
by the loch, eyes
looking up
at an evening descending,
an explosion of ebony
forming & unforming galaxies
in shifting spirals: now a DNA
now a bird’s nest, now the shape
of a serpentine river
that flows through this city,
until a sharp wind breaks the illusion,
blows them away, takes them
back into the depths of the woods,
those crafty, artsy buggers.
Dance of the Midges by Nikita Parik
Nikita Parik
Nikita Parik is the 2022–23 Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow at the University of Stirling. Her third and latest book, My City is a Murder of Crows (2022), was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar and the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize. She has recently presented talks, readings and workshops at SOAS University of London, University of Kent, and University of Stirling.