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David Capps
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Late Arrival to the Cherry Blossom Festival, Wooster Square
Past-peak white blossoms
in someone’s flower garden—
a bright red syringe.
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Can Collecting
across from the historic green
buried skeletons cradled
deep in what remains of elms
a baby stroller
stuffed to the gills with empties
and no one in sight
to push
this aluminum living, a means
of dying
at least
they have mowed the green—
the smell of fresh grass before
it is littered
the smell of stale beer before
it is littered again​​​
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David Capps is a philosophy professor and writer living in New Haven, CT. He is the author of six chapbooks: Poems from the First Voyage (The Nasiona Press, 2019), A Non-Grecian Non-Urn (Yavanika Press, 2019), Colossi (Kelsay Books, 2020), On the Great Duration of Life (Schism Neuronics, 2023), Fever in Bodrum (Bottlecap Press, 2024), and Wheatfield with a Reaper (Akinoga Press, forthcoming). His latest work is featured in Impost, Bombay Gin, The Classical Outlook, and Midnight Chem.