Downhill
By Julia Vinograd on I don’t have a home and I live here all the time.
Poetry
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Thunder Under the Sky
By Julia Vinograd on It’s raining in the ruins. Carved Pillars holding up clouds. A cracked marble stage surrounded by crouched drummers. Thunder in
Eat your heart out
By Mary Stackiewicz on The hate you have in your heart is darker than my skin. Since you don’t like my darkness anyway you
Adrift
By Joanna Bragen on Who is still here with me and where has everyone else gone where is my anchor when all my security
Worth a Thousand Words
By Claire J. Baker on A riveting black & white photo: a homeless man & his dog asleep under freeway overpass. The dog’s head rests on the man’s hand, a guardian in
Faithful Fools Retreat on the Streets
By Maureen Hartmann on I felt like a fool, like St. Francis of Assisi, who was a fool for Christ, wandering the streets in the Tenderloin
A Revolutionary Mind
By Kaleeo Acatar on So I’m hearing you won.
Slowly dancing to Blackstones
Beat
Thus selling our streets
to the point where
your even
Three Haikus by Needa Bee
By Anita de Asis Miralle on Politricksters Babylon leadersRule with lies, harm those with lessGet paid for their crimes Homefull Houseless on the streets.But with love
The Harp of Hope
By Claire J. Baker on When we are numbed,shocked clear through by tragedies inour home of homes, may somehow we finda way to keep pluckingthe harp strings
Untitled
By Ayat Jalal on Coffins are not carpetedThere not for standingLinoleum is uselessAs the imagined dreams,some believe they’ll be havingThe padding is for comfortto
Selected poems by Julia Vinograd
By Julia Vinograd on On the Street I’m not here, don’t look at me.Don’t scream when your children look at me,do you think bad
Winter Moon
By Claire J. Baker on The moon flowersinto full bloom.We cradle our handsfor mystical light.We have waited yearsfor such a night.Soundlesslysplendor slipsinto cupped handslike a