"Thinking about You and Sitting on the Floor of the Kitchen" by JC Andrews
Thinking about You and Sitting on the Floor of the Kitchen
I want to hear
the scream of a harmonica when I smell
your hair you go
all over me past
where there is
were or will be my
twelve favorite
part
hearts
glimmering of the
guardian angels whole
left on the table damn
this long day
damn this slow
June purple
with light
no one carries
well
with
not hands
you touched
but with
the eyes the wild moons
in my head in your head
so tired and
ready to eat I forgive
them
JC Andrews is a lesbian poet from Springfield, Arkansas. Her work can be found in Gulf Coast, The Massachusetts Review, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Her debut collection, Of an Ilk, was a finalist for the 2024 National Poetry Series and won the 2026 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. It will be published with Yale University Press in April 2027. Her chapbook, TRILLION AMBER TRUMPETS, will be published with Sibling Rivalry Press in April 2026.