> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Every Howling Thing
- URL: https://www.journal.ninthheaven.co/literature/every-howling-thing-a-poem/
- Published: 2025-07-02T03:00:11.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-13T15:26:35.000Z
- Description: As jackals approach a town, the townspeople must flee before nightfall. They all run except for a deaf girl, mourning her dead rabbit.
- Author: Özge Lena
- Tags: Literature & Poetry, Poetry, Issue I - Blue Winter, #Import 2025-10-08 13:07

## Synopsis 

As jackals approach a town, the townspeople must flee before nightfall. They all run except for a deaf girl, mourning her dead rabbit.

## Poem

**Every Howling Thing**  
by Özge Lena  
  
Night was just over the hills.   
They said jackals were about to come.  
  
They said we must hide   
the corpses under the rubble  
and *leave the city to them at once*.   
  
They said it was time.   
  
Every one of us gathered   
what we could. And ran.  
  
Except for the deaf girl who was howling   
by the body of her rabbit, two drops   
frozen under its eyelids, glistening   
like pomegranate seeds.   
  
She signed us not to leave.  
  
But jackals came like dusk.  
We had to be quick.  
We left before the evening.  
  
Before the blueblack flow  
of animals bled into the ruins.  
  
Except for the girl whose voice was cut  
by soldiers who were shooting at  
every howling thing.