Could be birds are the kids.

LA RÈGLE DU JEU BY NICHOLAS BEREN 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 74

1.

Could be birds are the kids

or at least bizarre

small fissures

between summer’s

bad shitty manner

the ruined barge walls

filled with so many birds

curses always bending

red and always haunted

2.

We put her on the floor

because as for this, as for me

walk to the house get wet

with that or that way,

that it is cool has died

at morning as the evidence

of night my purity

had dried vis-a-vis the wind

we sleep in the place where we sleep.

3.

The prosperity which has the place comes here,

in regard to me, in regard to that pressure

as for movement perhaps, as for I

a little I, either one

or reception of the present blood

which does not do everything

which is the pornography

the preparation of my body

for your presumptions, your shaft.

NICHOLAS BEREN

In addition to my poetry, I have published film criticism and arts features online and in print.