Neuro Logical
Evening After a Rainy Day - Andrew Shields
He looks out the window
at the gray late-winter day,
sees the hooded crows
perching in and flying around
the still leafless chestnut trees,
and hears their hectic speeches,
their dialogues on territory.
He cannot tell if it's still
raining, so he steps gingerly
across the room he swept
and vacuumed so carefully –
you never know if you missed
the last piece that will cut
your foot – and holds
his hand out through
the empty window frame:
there's no more rain, he thinks,
as a patch of blue comes clear
between the clouds and the horizon.
Bio:
Andrew Shields lives in Basel, Switzerland. His collection of poems "Thomas Hardy Listens to Louis Armstrong" was published by Eyewear in June 2015. His band Human Shields released the album "Somebody's Hometown" in 2015 and the EP "Défense de jouer" in 2016.