W. S. Di Piero is a poet, translator, and essayist whose poetry collections include Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems; Skirts and Slacks; and The Dog Star. His translation of Sandro Penna’s poems earned him the Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize from the Academy of American Poets. Among his essay collections are Shooting the Works: On Poetry and Pictures and Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art. Winner of the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Di Piero lives in San Francisco and is a professor of English at Stanford University.

Only in Things

by W. S. Di Piero

Some days, who can stare at swaths of sky,
leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets,
tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust,
or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key,

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