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David Capps

Late Arrival to the Cherry Blossom Festival, Wooster Square


Past-peak white blossoms
in someone’s flower garden—
a bright red syringe.

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

Late Arrival to the Cherry Blossom FestivalDavid Capps
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Can CollectingDavid Capps
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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.

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