After the L.A. Fires

some years the desert explodes

in a profusion of poppies,

that orange glowing all the way into space.

Aubrey Yarbrough

Aubrey Yarbrough is from a small town on the shoulder of the San Bernardino Mountains. Her poetry is informed by land that wants to quake and catch fire. She lives in Los Angeles where she co-hosts Briefly Here, a monthly reading series. Aubrey is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Her work has appeared in New American Writing, Spillway, and Hole in the Head Review, among other places.

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