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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
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.