Lauren Yarnall
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Message Taped Below a Park Bench
 
 
            Call                              me lamprey, stone                                            licker, boring
 
you like nail-bitten                               wood, but not so
 
                           artful. Call me                                      sister
 
            taxon—are we                                                  clandestine— I mean,
 
                         cladistics? I don’t want to                                             scare you, but I am
 
shapeless and longing               to curl into some                                              word
 
 
             you might say. My name                                               is leech
 
 
             or maybe                      jawless, or                                           both.




Lauren Yarnall is a MFA candidate at University of Idaho, where she also serves as current Managing Editor of Fugue. She is from Ellicott City, Maryland and received her bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing from Salisbury University. Her work has previously appeared in Harpur Palate, Sugar House Review, Permafrost Magazine, Puerto Del Sol, and elsewhere.




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