if animals could speak
how they would plead
when caught in a trap!
like foxes from folktales
praising our lovely furs
and our clever work
and praying to claw through the ropes
when our eyes turn away.
so i felt with you-
your talons out above my throat
and i thought, stupidly,
i could use my words.
Lauren Williams is a high school senior living in that nor’easter hotspot, Massachusetts. She enjoys going on long runs, writing short poems, and baking cookies. When she isn’t daydreaming, she’s quaking in her boots about college admissions. She plans to publish poems in her school’s literary magazine, The Quill.