Once There Were Wolves

by Charlotte McConaghy

9,000-year evolutionary chain, and it’s within them that we placed the closest wolf pen,

If someone hurt us, we needed only empathy, and forgiveness would be easy.

I wondered if this was what he felt all the time now, that hurt, so much that it paralyzed him. Or if it was the memory of the things he himself had torn down.

It took an enormous amount of work to live a subsistence life and when one thread came loose the rest followed

Mhoine, love. The world’s largest peat bog. It stores