i’ve got a new poem in this amazing anthology honoring goddesses & promoting the annual nat’l & int’l goddess festival. i wrote this one for my wife Rachel.

this anthology is packed full of poets & goddesses. thanks to Deborah Tosun Kilday for including my poem.

Pick up a copy here: https://a.co/d/bpsUDvk

i’m writing you this from the kitchen

© 2025 a.s. coomer

because i can’t stop drooling over you

& there’s a fresh roll of paper towels here

i’m writing you this from the kitchen

where i brush my teeth & strain

out the melodies to new songs

& your harmonies goo like grilled cheese

when i get it hot enough

i’m writing you this from the kitchen

because the light is better in the mornings

&, even in exhausted umbra,

there is such radiance in you

& we’re here so often

you with the recipe

me: red-eyed

& a-grinning

cutting the butter

i’m writing you this from the kitchen

because things are getting hard—ain’t it hard?

maybe i’m mining a vein better left

to greater gods & less fragile mountains

but the smells of cooking & you

feel too good to be true

& i only feel worthy of white castle

i’m writing you this from the kitchen

where i sit at your heels

a hellbent rain dog

just a-howling

eyes a-begging,

breath a fetid pant

& you feed me

like a stray

& like a stray

i’ve found my way

into your heart

though i’ll chafe

i’ll wear any collar

you put on me

don’t bother

with the paper towels

why the waste?

i can dry my eyes

with the dishrag

*originally pub’d in National & International Goddess Festival 2025 Anthology

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