Chinese Apples

Chinese ApplesBy: W. S. Di Piero Now in paperback: the lovely and evocative book (San Francisco Chronicle) of poems both new and old that celebrates a quarter century of passionate engagement with real life and its transformation into poetic form: the pull of faith and the poets suspicion of transcendence, urban worlds and the mysterious jazz of street language, desire and sexual need, love and loss.

They know they can win with something unusual from their favorite planet--Earth

The Sneetches and other Stories

You don’t have to be an athlete to keep your life in perspective and your performance at its peak

Do the dead continually unbury themselves

明天的我，一定會和今天不一樣的！

John lives for that satisfying clink of dominoes as they topple in a perfectly timed rhythm of his own design

But wait a minute

Building from life's fundamental ingredients

baking or preserving an abundance of produce

In the past five years

or a simple word choice during a cross-examination

and inspire the lives of others