Sweeping in the Rain
By Tiny Gray-Garcia on Let the trucks come / Take my pain and wash it away with this endless rain
Poetry
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Slam Bio
By LeaJay Harper on I learned that a house / has walls and foundation / But my home was whatever / porch I found to sleep that night
abort that cop, baby
By Jaz Colibri on "throwing funding at “prevention” / don’t mean nothing / when the genocide is ongoing"
Ordinary People
By Jeannette DesBoine on We are changing our names— / From ‘poor’ people to ‘ordinary’ people
Loving Oakland is a Plywood Maw
By Cassandra Dallett on Loving Oakland / is a series of tripping / with no luggage / Of baggage without a place / to put it down.
a numbers game
By Jaz Colibri on "Between shelters and sweeps
that recycle us on, off,
and back on these streets,
in a fiscal year reap
around:
$35,000,000
that us poor people never see
Rooms
By Olivia Rudd on "The history the structure elicits of some multidimensional space
Am I remembering some capsule?"
Recovery
By Joshua Merchant on "east Oakland is dilapidated
'Angel Grove City.' all our power-
rangers became crack heads
or died."
Windy Midnight Linen
By Taneesh Kaur on "The wind takes me in waves
down sidewalks of the living
rooms into windows of lives we see
streetside survival in the eyes of hungry love."
Under the Freeway Doe
By Kim Shuck on "Tent collects
Moisture from her breath
Wind rains it back she
Pulls the gift blanket
Over her head and
Waits for dusk"