Do not enter
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2010, I reflected on what it would…
Read More2.8 Borders & Boundaries
Ignorance, allied with power
Does the law exist for the purpose of furthering the ambitions of those who have sworn to uphold the law, or is it seriously…
Read MoreLeaving Barcelona
The rain drove everyone inside just me on deck at midnight watching glowing clouds obscure the city ringed by mountains …………………………………………………….sea and lightning moccasins…
Read MoreSuicidal loyalty
It is this freedom from the content of their own ideologies which characterizes the highest rank of the totalitarian hierarchy. These men consider everything…
Read MoreJourney of Changes (To the Enchanted Isles)
I. Clearer the land below …………crushed-velvet emerald …………………..& gold forest brocade Then veiled …………then shrouded in clouds clouds below blinding early Light clouds above…
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Alabama and Siberia
A version of this piece was previously published on TCK TOWN in 2017. Some people say home is where you come from. I disagree. I…
Read MoreWhich social forces
They say a nation gets the politicians it deserves. In some senses this is true: politicians are indeed a mirror of their society, and…
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The Edge
Grafton, Ontario (2017) In this piece, my son Caspian stares out across the crest of a small hill to the road and fields north…
Read MoreSee our neighbors
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes,…
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Tumbling into openness
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2010, Daniel Silliman reflects on maps, borders,…
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