This One's On The House
The gutters are clean,
since the rain ended.
The sky clears at dawn.
There was a fight;
people said things
they will later regret.
Drink espresso
at the all-night café,
ride the Metro home.
Sometime in the night
a kiss, the last.
Don't know it yet.
Andrew Shields lives in Basel, Switzerland. His collection of poems "Thomas Hardy Listens to Louis Armstrong" was published by Eyewear in 2015. His band Human Shields released the album "Somebody's Hometown" in 2015 and the EP "Défense de jouer" in 2016.
Twitter: @ShieldsAndrew