howling raze i heard you calling out in pain or fear, rending the night's pith with something worse than words. only it wasn't you. it was a dog howling in the unforgiving dark. two lonesome moans, clear as anything. then silence so severe it could swallow us whole. i kept my answer clenched in the thicket of my throat, a mute mongrel buried under blankets. 240610 what's it to you? who go blather from