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How to Explain Yourself to WolvesBy Jayme Volstad
CARTOGRAPHIC SURVEY

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The Atlas of Wolves

An unlabeled survey map prepared for the Atlas of WolvesValley of Please Understand MeForest of Other People’s WeatherBridge of If Only I Were EasierWolves Who Asked QuestionsLittle White DoorCarnival of Borrowed RoomsTailor’s ShopThroughAlmost Safe HouseMuseum of Alternative LivesOrchard of AlmostArchive of Things I Should Have SaidUnmapped Territory

The Valley of Please Understand Me

The Valley of Please Understand Me did not ask for truth. It asked for paperwork. In this basin, you could spend forty years assembling evidence to prove you were cold in the snow, while the committee sat before a blazing hearth and asked for three more notarized statements before they would concede the presence of frost.

A low basin where the air is thick with explanations that were never asked for.

  • No explanation ever satisfied a court that held a verdict before hearing the plea.
  • The thread passes through here without fastening.
  • Nested within: The Office of Clarification, the endless repetition of SAY IT AGAIN, and the unfiled letters of the Archive.