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Poetry by David Capps

You will remember the earth 
folding under so many leaves 
like faces of indistinguishable consciences 
merging with the dead, mulch 
in a pit of bare iron 
that had been there for as long as we knew--
as though what unifies everything 
 
were ineluctable work, 
knuckle scraping against the outer ring, 
the heft of wheelbarrows against the wind, 
occasional smiles near dusk, 
the potful of potatoes at the sagging end 
of day. 
 
You will remember 
how you carried whole yards of leaves 
and dropped them in, one after the next, making sure 
to smooth out any uneven surfaces 
as your brother looked on 
already old and wise 
and bored with everything.
 
You will remember 
how you carried forward a whole pile of abstractions 
pivoting across the entire earth 
even as your bones conspired against you,
yet somewhere along the line 
lost your grip,
 
that this was in the fall, 
that there was a poetry reading, 
that there were people you knew who were not 
from home you yourself were no longer
home. 

About the writer
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David Capps is a philosophy professor and poet who lives in Hamden, CT. He is the author of two chapbooks: 'Poems from the First Voyage' (The Nasiona Press, 2019), and 'A Non-Grecian Non-Urn' (Yavanika Press, 2019).
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