Jos Charles is author of feeld, a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, and Safe Space. She is a recipient of the 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. Charles has an MFA from the University of Arizona and is pursuing a PhD in English from UC Irvine.

HERE/YOU ARE

from August

By JOS CHARLES

California/
a fire my mind/
entirely a house of cinder in/
a house of cinder