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.
Street Spirit poetry
Rats’ Teeth
By Jaz Colibri on "how many times / can a city take / the last things / an old black man has / on this earth?"
Echolocation
By Jaz Colibri on Poetry by Wood Street Community member and houseless trans organizer Jaz Colibri
By the Bus Stop
By Virginia Barett on She sells flores | Flowers by the bus stop | La gente | La basura | Walgreens is always open
Pain
By Anthony Calderon (NXSEAXNS) on Pain – the feeling when you’re stuck up in the rain – the reason why my patna put a bullet
Street album
By Claire J. Baker on May we all keep a photographof the momentsomeone’s eyesmeet our ownand linger—that silvery silence when both acceptour differences and let
Street meditation
By Claire J. Baker on We live on this planet wondering who we are beyond our griefs & sorrows, hunger, struggle & war. Our cares
Stay with the caravan
By Claire J. Baker on A poem by longtime Street Spirit contributor, Claire Baker.