Hard at play
byIt’s a Sunday morning in late spring. Our cat lounges in the sun by the open window, where the joyous prelude of bird chatter…
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Rocky River Series: Bridge
byThree Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) One of the reasons I love living in downtown Three Rivers is that I get to experience the pleasures…
Walking the Shoreline
byDock elongates winter cold, overwrought with broken shells, white and purple fragments, wood cake of seagull feathers, droppings. Lampposts extend to the clouds, like…
Terra Irredenta
byWashington, D.C. A doe and fawn in our driveway— Two fox cubs play in the yard. A pair of red-tailed hawks patrol the ravine…
The Catalogue of Living Here
by1. The maple measures out the space its buds will need for leaf and flowers pick colours from the charts laid out in the…
Loon egg: Memory of a place
by“You are not welcome at the house because you abandoned the people who lived there.” There were a bunch of other words, but these…
Nature walk on concrete
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2004, Amy Carpenter-Leugs reflects on the notion…
Memory Song
byWithout showing, the time is wearing out. Frail paper flowers bloom and wither and time is in the heart of us all. Frail paper…
A Michigan Saturday is good for the soul
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Hannah Thyberg recalls a day…
Arbor awe
byEditor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2009, Josh Maclvor-Anderson shares a tale…